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Etymology

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memorandum +‎ -ist

Noun

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Memorandist (plural Memorandists)

  1. (historical) A supporter of the Transylvanian Memorandum, a petition sent in 1892 by the leaders of the Romanians of Transylvania to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph, asking for equal ethnic rights with the Hungarians, and demanding an end to persecutions and Magyarization attempts.