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词汇 soothsayer
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soothsayer n.

mid-14c., soth-seier, also zoþ ziggere (Kentish), "one who speaks truth, a candid adviser" (a sense now obsolete); late 14c., sothseggere, "fortune-teller, one who claims to foretell the future;" see sooth + say.

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