foreteller
Example Sentences
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But I have heard say that prophetes means, not a foreteller, but an out-teller—one who declares the will of a deity, and interprets his oracles.
From Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley
Upon the directions of Ambrose, whose advice he had asked by letter, he tried to read the prophet Isaiah, because Isaiah is the clearest foreteller of the Redemption.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
"As you've already reminded me, I am no foreteller of the future."
From The High School Boys' Training Hike by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
As a business adviser or foreteller of the Future, I don't think he is excelled.
From There is no Death by Florence Marryatt
In all high-strung Irish souls there is a bit of the old wife, the foreteller; the gift of prescience; and Kitty possessed this in a mild degree.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
