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
What foreteller of spear-shower E'en within this nigh-passed hour, Swift through the rough weather rode Past the gate of this abode?
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
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 Alexander Maclaren
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
Then, again, the word prophet has come to be associated with the thought of a foreteller of future events.
From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Hector Carsewell Macpherson
