forthspeaker

One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.

Noun

  1. 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. - 1967, David Saville Muzzey, Ethics as a religion:
    • 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...
  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 [...] - 1912, Homiletic review, volume 63:
    • 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...

Origin

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

Forms

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