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Raisonneur [rez-ə-NUR]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: French, 19th century

1. A person in a play or book embodying an author's viewpoint.

Examples of raisonneur in a sentence

"The character Horace was clearly the raisonneur of the play, speaking the young playwright’s opinions directly to the audience at times."

"Using a raisonneur as a narrator gave the novel an autobiographical feel."