foreteller

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Upon the directions of Ambrose, whose advice he had asked by letter, he tried to read the prophet Isaiah, because Isaiah is the clearest foreteller of the Redemption.

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

"As you've already reminded me, I am no foreteller of the future."

From The High School Boys' Training Hike by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

But I have heard say that prophetes means, not a foreteller, but an out-teller—one who declares the will of a deity, and interprets his oracles. 

From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles

"I am what you might call a mind reader, a mystic, a foreteller of future events."

From Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range by Young, Clarence

The despised flower was by this raised to the position of a prophet, or foreteller of events.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)