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Lecturer vs Forthspeaker - What's the difference?

lecturer | forthspeaker |

As nouns the difference between lecturer and forthspeaker

is that lecturer is a person who gives lectures, especially as a profession while forthspeaker is one who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.

lecturer

English

Noun

(wikipedia lecturer) (en noun)
  • A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.
  • A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader.
  • (dated) A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures ) in the afternoons and evenings.

    • forthspeaker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • A lecturer.

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