"memorialist" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "memorial",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "memorial + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "memorial + -ist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "memorialists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "memorialist (plural memorialists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ist",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 January 8, Richard Eder, “Ultimate Exile: A Gypsy Poet Expelled by Her People”, in New York Times",
          "text": "The impediment comes in Mr. McCann’s effort to fashion a novel out of a search; in this case his diligent immersion in the work of scholars, the writings of Romany (now a preferred term) poets and memorialists, and his studies and travels in Slovakia, where much of the book is set.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A writer of memorials."
      ],
      "id": "en-memorialist-en-noun-eLY307FZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "writer",
          "writer"
        ],
        [
          "memorial",
          "memorial"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who signs a petition."
      ],
      "id": "en-memorialist-en-noun-iKTNrQQ-",
      "links": [
        [
          "sign",
          "sign"
        ],
        [
          "petition",
          "petition"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "memorialist"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ist"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "memorial",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "memorial + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "memorial + -ist",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "memorialists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "memorialist (plural memorialists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 January 8, Richard Eder, “Ultimate Exile: A Gypsy Poet Expelled by Her People”, in New York Times",
          "text": "The impediment comes in Mr. McCann’s effort to fashion a novel out of a search; in this case his diligent immersion in the work of scholars, the writings of Romany (now a preferred term) poets and memorialists, and his studies and travels in Slovakia, where much of the book is set.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A writer of memorials."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "writer",
          "writer"
        ],
        [
          "memorial",
          "memorial"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who signs a petition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sign",
          "sign"
        ],
        [
          "petition",
          "petition"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "memorialist"
}