ranter
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ranter \Rant"er\ (r[a^]nt"[~e]r), n.
1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
(a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; --
called also {Seekers}. See {Seeker}.
(b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency
in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "ranter":
Herod, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee,
Tartuffe, affecter, blatherskite, bluff, bluffer, blusterer,
braggart, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, canter, canting hypocrite,
debater, declaimer, demagogue, dissembler, dissimulator, fanfaron,
formalist, haranguer, hector, hectorer, hypocrite, jawsmith,
lip server, lip worshiper, panelist, pharisee, pietist,
pious fraud, poser, public speaker, rabble-rouser, raver,
religionist, religious hypocrite, roisterer, sniveler, snuffler,
speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler,
spiritual humbug, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter, swaggerer,
swashbuckler, swasher, talker, tub-thumper, vaporer,
whited sepulcher
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