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memoirist|ˈmɛmwərɪst, -wɑːr-|
[f. memoir + -ist.]
A writer of memoirs, or of a memoir.
1769R. Griffith Gordian Knot I. 154 (F. H.). 1839Taylor Mem. Surtees in Surtees' Durham 95 note, Memoranda..which the Memoirist was allowed to read. 1889G. W. Cable Strange True Stories Louisiana ii. 48 Carlo was beginning to swear ‘fit to raise the dead’, writes the memoirist, at the tardiness of the Norman pair. 1907Daily Chron. 11 Jan. 3/2 In almost every section of the volume he advances, as a memoirist, a moralist,..or a translator.., someone whose name deserves to be rewritten over a faded tomb. 1914N.Y. Times 31 May, These memoirists are as frankly revealing as any that described the daily life of the Grand Monarch's Court. 1970Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 13 Nov. 54/4 Hack memoirists often describe [Greta] Garbo as ‘lonely’ or ‘loveless’.
So ˈmemoirism, the practice of writing memoirs.
1833Carlyle Misc. Ess., Diderot (1872) V. 63 Towards reducing that same Memoirism of the Eighteenth Century into History. |