forthspeaker

English

Etymology

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

Noun

forthspeaker (plural forthspeakers)

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