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Definition of Diary keeper
1. Noun. Someone who keeps a diary or journal.
Generic synonyms: Writer
Specialized synonyms: Pepys, Samuel Pepys
Derivative terms: Diary, Diary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diary Keeper
Literary usage of Diary keeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1878)
"Jokes have brought about mighty things, and very poor jokes at that; and in this
small matter, many a diary-keeper will wince at the aggressive little ..."
2. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"In this same church was also buried Thomas Pepys, brother of the diary-keeper,
whose funeral Pepys records with a curious mixture of grief, thrift, ..."
3. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing by James Savage, John Farmer, Orrando Perry Dexter (1860)
"Ruth m. the f. of the Diary-keeper. JOHN, Charlestown 1638, Salem 1639, freem.
14 May 1640, had John, bapt. 27 June 1641 ; and da 1647, leav. wid. Eliz. ..."
4. The Human Side of Trees: Wonders of the Tree World, by Royal Dixon and by Royal Dixon, Franklyn Everett Fitch (1917)
"Upon the removal of some overgrown and close-pressing neighbour, the diary-keeper
will write in a much freer and larger hand. Upon reaching maturity the ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1896)
"Speaking of herself as a journalist and diary-keeper, she says, self-admiringly,
but truly, “I do not fall short for want of fine terms. ..."
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