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