propheticality

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

prophetical +‎ -ity

Noun[edit]

propheticality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being prophetic.
    • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
      An odd sort of propheticality in this Numps and old Noll!
    • 2003, John G. Stackhouse Jr., Evangelical Ecclesiology: Reality Or Illusion?, page 92:
      Lower-tension religious bodies tend to prioritize the four traditional marks over the correlative qualities of diversity, charisma, contextualization, and propheticality (which are downplayed or ignored) and tend to interpret the traditional qualities as marks of the church as institution.
    • 2013, Anna-Leena Toivanen, “Vindicating Dambudzo Marechera: Features of Cultic Remembering”, in Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 22, number 4:
      The notion of Marechera's propheticality stems from the critical position he adopted towards the post-independence regime.
    • 2016, Anna Maria Andersen Nawrot, The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture, page 61:
      While propheticality viewed in conjunction with radicality — as a 'notional hybrid' denoting an excendent dialogue — will shape the dialogue to gain a moral practice.