John the Baptist

Definitions

1. A New Testament prophet who baptized Jesus and was subsequently executed by Herod Antipas.
2. A harbinger or prophetic figure, often one initially ignored or rejected by others.
   figuratively

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Examples

“In those daies came Iohn the Baptist, preaching in the wildernesse of Iudea, And saying, Repent yee: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.”

“[…] and praise⟳ such as Glenn Frank’s: “Keyserling may turn⟳ out to be a John the Baptist of a new Western civilization.””

“In 1935 Szálasi had been a lonely John the Baptist in Hungarian politics, the self-appointed leader of a tiny party, less than 500 strong, advocating an unpopular cause.”

“Ellis makes Diaghilev a John the Baptist of a ‘classico-mathematical Renaissance’, and the notion that this was a renaissance of some kind or other was evidently in the air.”

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