Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who teaches or professes faith in a gospel.
- noun One who reads or sings the Gospel as part of a church service.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
gospeler .
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- noun a preacher of the Christian gospel
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Examples
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I know you for a hardy gospeller, that fear neither saint nor devil, yet, if I were you, I would not sing your profane songs in this valley of
The Abbot 2008
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Hot-gospeller and the Bible-thumper says that Jesus was destined to die for the sins of mankind.
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Hot-gospeller and Bible-thumper is the language he uses.
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"Hot-gospeller and the Bible-thumper says that Jesus was destined to die for the sins of mankind."
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The gospeller caught me looking after her and smiled.
The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991
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Tye and Al stood watching as the gospeller and I trod to the verandah.
The Great California Game Gash, Jonathan 1991
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First he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller and epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children
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Ever since the words of the Gnostic gospeller, "He shall lead you unto all truth," were written, it has been claimed that the authentic medium of Divine communications has been a corporation or a book, one or the other being affirmed to be an exhaustive and infallible philosophy of God and man.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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First, he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller, an epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children: in the vestry a yeoman and two grooms, besides other retainers that came thither at principal feasts ....
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Christicle, who's this excrement yellow gospeller on the Merrion hall?
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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