forthspeaker

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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