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
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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
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Louie Causton would have been poor stuff for the hot gospeller to practise upon.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The 24th Canon directs that "In all cathedral and collegiate churches the Holy Communion shall be administered, . . . the principal minister using a decent cope, and being assisted with the gospeller and epistoler."
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
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