Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inspired utterance of a prophet, viewed as a revelation of divine will.
- noun A prediction of the future, made under divine inspiration.
- noun Such an inspired message or prediction transmitted orally or in writing.
- noun The vocation or condition of a prophet.
- noun A prediction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inspired discourse; specifically, in Christian theol., discourse flowing from the revelation and impulse of the Holy Spirit.
- noun A prediction; declaration of something to come; especially, a foretelling under divine inspiration.
- noun Interpretation of Scripture; religious exhortation or instruction.
- noun In liturgics: A lection from the Old Testament, especially a eucharistic or missal lection; also, a lection in the Mozarabic daily office, and in the Greek Church at sabbath vespers on certain festivals.
- noun The canticle Benedictus (Luke i. 68-79) as sung in the Gallican liturgy, afterward displaced by the Gloria in Excelsis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
- noun (Script.) A book of prophecies; a history.
- noun Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
prediction , especially one made by aprophet or underdivine inspiration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
- noun knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I also avoid the term prophecy, which is often used to describe a claim to be able to see the future.
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I also avoid the term prophecy, which is often used to describe a claim to be able to see the future.
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I also avoid the term prophecy, which is often used to describe a claim to be able to see the future.
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I also avoid the term prophecy, which is often used to describe a claim to be able to see the future.
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Indeed, the drift in the meaning of the word prophecy from "preaching" to "prediction" is one way that our understanding of sacred texts in the world has become muddled.
Turnstyle: 2012: Apocalypse Fatigue Turnstyle 2011
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Indeed, the drift in the meaning of the word prophecy from "preaching" to "prediction" is one way that our understanding of sacred texts in the world has become muddled.
Turnstyle: 2012: Apocalypse Fatigue Turnstyle 2011
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It has never failed to be foretold in prophecy from the beginning of the human race, and we now see the prophecy being fulfilled in all that happens (652).
Orals Reading: Saint Augustine and Time Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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It has never failed to be foretold in prophecy from the beginning of the human race, and we now see the prophecy being fulfilled in all that happens (652).
Archive 2007-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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The Use of the Present and Preterite in prophecy is no proof that the author is later than Isaiah.
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Strictly, however, the term prophecy applies as much to outspeaking as to foretelling; and, even in the restricted sense of
On the Method of Zadig Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
brobbins commented on the word prophecy
speaking, "communication" with God
July 23, 2009