foreteller

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As a business adviser or foreteller of the Future, I don't think he is excelled.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence

The despised flower was by this raised to the position of a prophet, or foreteller of events.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

The prophet was more than a foreteller, as is being continually insisted upon nowadays.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

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 Kingsley, Charles

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 MacGrath, Harold