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Definition of Obituarist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obituarist
Literary usage of Obituarist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"obituarist, the recorder of a death ; the writer of a notice in memoria in.
He it was who composed the whole peal of Stedman's triples, 5 >40 changes, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"His obituarist, in his old periodical, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
records that, 'although a man of no great ability, he could turn his hand to ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"... but the light which the obituarist shall throw upon them, the meanings which
he shall dress them in, the conclusions which he shall draw from them, ..."
4. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"The very hour of this mournful event is pointed out with a painful precision that
would defy the utmost chronological accuracy of the minut- est obituarist; ..."
5. Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes by William Motherwell (1846)
"The very hour of this mournful event is pointed out with a painful precision that
would defy the utmost chronological accuracy of the minutest obituarist; ..."
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