gospeller
Britishnoun
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a person who reads or chants the Gospel in a religious service
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a person who professes to preach a gospel held exclusively by him and others of a like mind
Example Sentences
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In 1993, the 60-year-old gospeller had supposedly found Judaism but was also rock’n’rolling again.
From The Guardian • May 10, 2020
The newspapers that had scoffed at the "hot gospeller" from the U.S. now wrote editorials of warm praise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, I don't know where we shall get a hotter gospeller than Brother Peck.
From Annie Kilburn : a Novel by Howells, William Dean
D. Eras- m9 of Roterodame/ one called Polyphemus or the gospeller/ the other dysposyng of thynges and names/ translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke.
From Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) by Erasmus, Desiderius
Sometimes the vestments for the celebrant, the gospeller, and the epistoler, were called "priest, deacon, and subdeacon," instead of chasuble, dalmatic, and tunicle.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George
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