prophecy

plural prophecies · alternative obsolete prophecie · alternative obsolete prophesy

1. countableuncountableA prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

   French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.

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   But Nature, prevoyant, tingled into his heart an inarticulate thrill of prophecy.

   1862, Margaret Oliphant, The Life of Edward Irving

   It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.

   1955 November, G. Machell, “Railway Development at Aylesbury - 1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 741-742

   Flatterers were indeed beginning to wonder whether Edward I was not a new Arthur in the mould of Merlinic prophecies.

   2000, R. R. Davies, The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343, →ISBN, page 32

2. countableuncountableThe public interpretation of Scripture.

present singular third person prophecies · participle present prophecying · participle past prophecied · past prophecied

1. alternativedatedAlternative form of prophesy.

   One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]

   2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142

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   […] think of the kind pains you took to reason and persuade me out of my fears, convince me that I should like it after a little while, and feel how right you proved to be, I am inclined to hope you may always prophecy as well.

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 53

   The manipulation of these tremendous beneficent energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.

   1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 21

   The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.

   2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135

   the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

   2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85