Forthspeaker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Forthspeaker is a noun meaning One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.
Meaning
One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.
More Meanings
- A prophet.
Example Sentences
He was not a soothsayer or foreteller of events, but a forthspeaker of a message from Jehovah.
[...] 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.
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.
Word Forms
- forthspeakers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include holder-forth, announcer, outspeaker, speaker, proclaimer, forespeaker.
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