prophecy

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English prophecie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French prophetie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prophētīa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía, prophecy), from προφήτης (prophḗtēs, speaker of a god), from πρό (pró, before) + φημί (phēmí, I tell)

Pronunciation

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Noun

prophecy (countable and uncountable, plural prophecies)

  1. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
    French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
  2. The public interpretation of Scripture.

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Verb

prophecy (third-person singular simple present prophec, present participle ies, simple past and past participle prophecied)

  1. (chiefly dated) Alternative 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.
    • 2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in 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);

Middle English

Noun

prophecy

  1. Alternative form of prophecie