Memoiric

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to anecdotes based on one's own life; autobiographical.

    "This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time. Mystifying, because all references to it found in the memoiric literature are contradictory; likewise, because rumors of a Reichswehr- Red generals conspiracy were floating about simultaneously, possibly as a part of a plot to frame the Red generals with Nazi forgeries, two developments which have their own contradictory literature."

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"This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time. Mystifying, because all references to it found in the memoiric literature are contradictory; likewise, because rumors of a Reichswehr- Red generals conspiracy were floating about simultaneously, possibly as a part of a plot to frame the Red generals with Nazi forgeries, two developments which have their own contradictory literature."

Etymology

From memoir + -ic.

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