prophesy
IPA: prˈɑfʌsi
noun
- Obsolete spelling of prophecy; now a misspelling. [A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.]
verb
- To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
- To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).
- To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
- (intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
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Examples of "prophesy" in Sentences
- My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy JimK
- The Micah prophesy is clearly about someone of the Bethlehem Ephratah clan.
- Continue here: My Own Worst Enemy cancelled in self-fulfilling title prophesy JimK
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- Some such convulsion as geologists declare has already frequently befallen our earth; and, as they prophesy, is shortly coming again.
- And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": 149 where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision.
- And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": (47) where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision.
- The term prophesy, in this instance, must be restricted to the use of psalmody, because exposition or exhortation in public was not permitted to the women, who were not allowed to speak or even to ask a question in a place of worship.
- Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years.
- As he bore it patiently, and did not answer, they doubtless supposed they had discovered another reason to think he was an impostor; The word prophesy does not mean only to foretell future events -- although that is the proper meaning of the word; but also to declare anything that is unknown, or anything which cannot be known by natural knowledge, or without revelation.
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