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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



... was. And now all has happened according to prophecy, and he's gone with this woman! He thinks she's his mate, but, I—I was his mate. And I defrauded him. So now he's taken her because she was kind, because she loved him, ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie
... were right, I was wrong. It is good to be in England again. Your prophecy has come true. The dead past has pretty well buried its dead. A few dry bones show under the surface here and there. I let them lie. Is thy servant a dog, that he should dig up ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... communion of matter with matter, a fellowship of continent with continent, an interchange of forces which throws a broad light on things still deeper and more marvellous. It affirms the unity of all created things and predicts the dawn of a new thought of the kinship of races; there is in it the prophecy of new insights into the universal life of men, of fellowships that shall rise to the recognition of new duties, and of a well-being which shall bind the weakest to the strongest, the poorest to the richest, the lowest to the ...
— Under the Trees and Elsewhere • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... Alypius, a learned architect of Antioch, who held many important offices under that monarch, to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem, A. D. 363, with the avowed object of falsifying the prophecy of our Saviour with regard to that structure. While the workmen were engaged in making excavations for the foundation, balls of fire issued from the earth and destroyed them. This indication of divine wrath against the reprobate Jews and the Apostate Julian, compelled him to ...
— Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) • Shearjashub Spooner
... a fathom of water. But the stormy inconstancy of Mac's behaviour had no connection with a gill or two of wine; his passions, angry and otherwise, were on a different sail-plan from his neighbours'; and there were possibilities of good and evil in that hybrid Celt beyond their prophecy. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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