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Prophecy   /prˈɑfəsi/   Listen
noun
Prophecy  n.  (pl. prophecies)  
1.
A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling. "He hearkens after prophecies and dreams." "Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man."
2.
(Script.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
3.
Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.





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"Prophecy" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemed from Davie's account to have been a hard drinker. Kipping was reminded of yarns about Malay pirates, which he told so quietly, so mildly, that they seemed by contrast thrice as terrible. Neddie Benson lugubriously recalled the prophecy of the charming fortune-teller and argued the worst of our mysterious stranger. "The lady said," he repeated, "that there'd be a dark man and a light man and no end o' trouble. She was a nice lady, too." But Neddie and his doleful fortune-teller as usual banished ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... another with impassioned farewells. Sergeants and corporals and men were wakeful. Some of these, too, were writing letters, sending messages; others joined in the discussion as to the theatre of war, or made knots of their own, centres of conjectures and prophecy; others roamed the streets, or down by the river bank watched the dark stream. Of these, a few proposed to strip and have a swim—who knew when they'd see the old river again? But the notion was frowned upon. One must be dressed ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston
... 'Lord Lyttelton's vision has revived the taste; though it seems a little odd that an APPARITION should despair of getting access to his Lordship's bed, in the shape of a young woman, without being forced to use the disguise of a robin-redbreast.' What was an apprehension or prophecy has become a dream, and the dream has become an apparition of a robin-redbreast and a ...
— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang
... Persian named Cambyses, who took her with him to his own country. But after his daughter's marriage Astyages had another dream, which was interpreted by the priests to mean that his daughter's child was destined to reign in his stead. Alarmed by this prophecy he sent for his daughter, and when in course of time she bore a son, he ordered his trusty lieutenant Harpagus to carry the child to his own house and kill it. Harpagus took the infant as he had been ordered to do, but moved by the pleadings of his wife he determined ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
... back and now I heard the witches faintly wailing, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair—" Sid has them echo that line offstage at the end to give a feeling of prophecy fulfilled. ...
— No Great Magic • Fritz Reuter Leiber


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