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forthspeaker en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.
   • 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. 1986, George P. Landow, Elegant Jeremiahs: the sage from Carlyle to Mailer:
   • He was not a soothsayer or foreteller of events, but a forthspeaker of a message from Jehovah. 1967, David Saville Muzzey, Ethics as a religion:
2. A prophet.
   • 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. 1992, University of Southern Mississippi, The Southern quarterly: Volume 31:
   • [...] 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 [...] 1912, Homiletic review, volume 63:

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