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A prophet is defined as a person regarded as an inspired teacher or a proclaimer of God’s will.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2021

To choose America's best preacher, religion writer David Van Biema consulted experts in many denominations and spent hours watching tapes, searching for the most electrifying proclaimer of the Gospel.

From Time Magazine Archive

These qualities, no doubt, recommended her to the notice of CHAUMETTE, the proclaimer of atheism, under whose auspices she more than once figured as the goddess of reason.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

No more shall Echo, now his voice return, Echo for ever must in silence mourn,— Lament, ye heroes, who frequent the wars, The great proclaimer of your dreadful scars.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

There never lived a poet, sticking to his business, that has not at some time in his career become a panegyrist of his extraordinary supposed qualities and a proclaimer of his magnificence.

From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various