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Vinony

chronicler

noun

  1. writer of a chronicle
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: From chronicle + -er.

  1. The presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles and certain other books of the Tanakh.

    “The Chronicler's survey of events in the history of Judah (often, but not always, from a positive perspective) is articulated through a theological framework centered on covenant. In short, the book of Chronicles recounts the faithful acts of ...”

    “[…] effort to prevent a fall back into the idolatry and apostasy that had brought on God's judgment in the first place. The Chronicler, like the postexilic prophets, did not desire a repeat of the Lord's judgment on Israel […]”

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English chronicle Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chronicler From chronicle + -er.

  1. A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

    “But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.”