predicting

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English

Verb

predicting

  1. present participle of predict
    2000, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, xiii.
    Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.

Noun

predicting (plural predictings)

  1. A prediction.
    • 2011, John Finnis, Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays (page 203)
      And we, looking back, can observe how Peter attributes the prophetic predictings not to the human imaginings of the prophets but to 'the Spirit of Christ within them' []