chronicler
IPA: krˈɑnɪkɫɝ
noun
- A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
- The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.
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Examples of "chronicler" in Sentences
- Leah Hager Cohen on Cost by Roxana Robinson: Robinson has been perennially and somewhat reductively tagged a chronicler of WASP life.
- When Clovis and his army were baptized the chronicler speaks of "over three thousand" soldiers who became Christians upon that occasion.
- GIORGIO VASARI, better known as the chronicler of the works of other artists than for the excellence of his own, was born at Arezzo, 1512 -- died at Florence, 1574.
- The media is always too quick to canonize a ballplayer for being available at his locker, for returning a phone call, for extending the simple courtesy of recalling a chronicler's first name.
- Nor is it extravagant to suppose that great efforts would have been made to save the royal records at the destruction of Samaria, especially as there was a royal official, called the chronicler, who would have had care of them.
- If conditions at American farms and slaughterhouses have improved at all in recent years, it is thanks in part to Temple Grandin, a brilliant professor of animal science who is perhaps better known as a chronicler of growing up autistic.
- The chronicler, however, who tells the story, considers the conduct of the monks of St. Albans in sending spurious relics was "pious," while the behaviour of the monks of Ely was "detestable and disgraceful" -- but then the chronicler was a monk of St. Albans.
- In a very early description of colonial Mexico City, Francisco Cervantes de Salazar mentions that the barbers operated out of stalls with "all classes of artisans and craftsmen" — carpenters, locksmiths, shoemakers, weavers, and breadmakers — along the calle de Tacuba. 56 Another chronicler from the eighteenth century mentions that the barber stands were among those removed from the Plaza de Volador anytime there were bullfights; the barbers there, it was noted by another, "set themselves up [and] apply their skill to the poor who come to be bled or to have their beard cut."
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