prophecy
nounEtymology
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, “to tell”). Displaced native Old English wītgung. Doublet of prophesy.
Definitions
A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
- French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
- But Nature, prevoyant, tingled into his heart an inarticulate thrill of prophecy.
- It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.
The public interpretation of Scripture.
Alternative form of prophesy.
- […] think of the kind pains you took to reason and persuade me out of my fears, convince me that I should like it after a little while, and feel how right you proved to be, I am inclined to hope you may always prophecy as well.
- The manipulation of these tremendous beneficent energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
- One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]
The neighborhood
- neighborprophesy
- neighborprophet
- neighborprophetation
- neighborprophetic
- neighborprophetically
- neighborpropheticism
- neighborpropheticly
- neighborprophetocracy
- neighborprophetry
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at prophecy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at prophecy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at prophecy
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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