prophecy
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From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin prophētīa, from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía, “prophecy”), from προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “speaker of a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “I tell”)
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prophecy (plural prophecies)
- A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
- French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
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prophecy (third-person singular simple present prophecies, present participle prophecying, simple past and past participle prophecied)
- Dated form of prophesy.
- 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
- The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
- Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks) in 2001, S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142:
- One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]
- 2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135:
- The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
- 2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85:
- 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);
- 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
