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Meaning of forthspeaker | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.
  2. A prophet.

Examples

“He was not a soothsayer or foreteller of events, but a forthspeaker of a message from Jehovah.”
“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.”
“[...] 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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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