(n.) The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
(n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.
(n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost instantly after the restart Pozuelo was allowed to dance forward before unloading an effort in what proved an augury of Swansea's grandstand finish.
(2) Even though the remnants of his political career may depend on winning this referendum, the auguries are not good.
(3) But the auguries of the imminent government spending review all suggest that the cuts will fall disproportionately upon those already most economically disadvantaged.
(4) This had arrived as early as 28 seconds as the first augury of Brazil's soured dream.
(5) Or perhaps not: even their own people have acknowledged that they face disaster in next month's European and local elections , which would cap a run of electoral disasters and thus highlight grim auguries for the general election.
(6) Those in search of a positive augury for Moyes and United had to reach back 30 years for the last time a 2-0 deficit was overturned in Europe.
(7) When a right whale was harpooned to death at Deptford in 1658, it was seen as an augury of the death of the dictator Oliver Cromwell.
(8) The City, meanwhile, is brimming with both good cheer and grim auguries.
(9) Wolfsburg’s Bas Dost and Max Kruse do enough to see off PSV Eindhoven Read more The sight of Phil Jones launching a hopeful high ball to Martial that missed the Frenchman was hardly the best augury that United might be about to find an equaliser with precision football.
(10) This is an unhappy augury for the future dental health of Nigeria.
(11) If, on this most popular and painfully human question, she will give no inch, that’s a terrible augury for how she intends to conduct these negotiations, opening with a war cry to all 27 countries: we hold your people hostage.
(12) "The [UMP] leaders have deliberately refused to execute a judicial order ... in politics, contempt for the justice system is a pretty bad augury for the quality of leaders," said Fillon's lawyer François Sureau.
Prophecy
Definition:
(n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
(n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
(n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) JGB: I think science fiction always has had a predictive role, and many of its prophecies have come true.
(2) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(3) Intrusive thoughts – especially anxious ones about erectile capacity – very often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(4) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(5) Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke of his vision of that prophecy with the following words: Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world.
(6) To fulfil Wenger’s prophecy about Walcott’s evolution it would make sense for him to get a clutch of games to develop his rhythm.
(7) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
(8) This behavior results in a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
(9) West’s novels have an astonishing record of prophecy.
(10) Her prophecy came true, with her grandson coming to London as a research fellow at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts) in 1974.
(11) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
(12) If one child does not come to school that is too high a price to pay ... and then in educational terms it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
(13) As with all prophecies of doom, or indeed those of an impending economic boom, we should treat such visions with caution.
(14) The message that even if you don’t like Putin, there is no alternative, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the state machine that ensures no opposition forces can ever get too much oxygen.
(15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
(16) But DeMoro insisted he had a meaningful chance of becoming president and dismissed the concerns as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” by Democratic party leaders.
(17) This report deals with the influence of the self-fulfilling prophecy on dental prophylaxis.
(18) In order for an awake intubation to be successful, it is absolutely essential that the patient be properly prepared; otherwise, the anesthesiologist will simply fulfill a self-defeating prophecy.
(19) This prophecy may have seemed far-fetched when first published in 1903, but it was to prove more and more compelling as the century advanced.
(20) Whatever its origins, the Bugarach prophecy has implanted itself in France's collective consciousness.