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
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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
"No, only half Quaker; the other half gospeller," replied the old man meekly.
From Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem by Pyle, Howard
Beautiful gospeller, who marries Adam Bede, after the latter recovers from his infatuation for pretty Hetty Sorrel.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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