forthspeaker
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From forth- + speaker, or as a derivative of forthspeak.
Noun[edit]
forthspeaker (plural forthspeakers)
- 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.
- 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.