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forthspeaker

noun

Etymology

From forth- + speaker, or as a derivative of forthspeak.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. prefixed as forthspeaker — “forth + speaker”

Definitions

  1. One who speaks forth or makes declaration

    One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.

    • He was not a soothsayer or foreteller of events, but a forthspeaker of a message from Jehovah.
    • For example, Charles Kingsley's argument that God still sends prophets to guide man is obviously based upon this conception of the prophet as forthspeaker rather than foreteller.

  2. A prophet.

    • [...] to the forthspeaker for God this book has the greatly enhanced value that it is by one who had learned what many historians have ignored [...]
    • In "Prophet from Highland Avenue: Agee's Visionary Journalism," Paul Ashdown discusses Agee as sage, as forthspeaker in his journalistic works and his film criticisms.

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