foreteller

Example Sentences

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"As you've already reminded me, I am no foreteller of the future."

From The High School Boys' Training Hike by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

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

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 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

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 Morris, William