What's the difference between clairvoyance and prophesy?

Clairvoyance


Definition:

  • (n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In summary, the development of programs in the community serving the severely and chronically mentally ill is a political-sociological activity requiring a detailed working knowledge of the community to be involved, a clear understanding of objectives and specific agreements related to the program to be developed, adequate and stable funding, appropriate supportive and ancillary resources, significant bureaucratic skill and flexibility, adequate time for appropriate community education and feedback from key community leaders, a certain amount of clairvoyance in anticipating difficulties and unexpected problems, an immense amount of perseverance and, finally--and probably as important as any other single element--timing and luck.
  • (2) She is currently working with a clairvoyant who tells her to do certain things, go to certain places.
  • (3) Carl Jung displayed all five of these features in his life and psychotherapy, including dreams and waking fantasies in childhood; the use of active imagination in the induction of an ASC; contact with forces, knowledge, and power of the unconscious; a dual "personality," and the dialogue with the inner world--the unconscious, the realm of the archetypes; the use of these discoveries to counsel, advise, and heal; and psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences.
  • (4) mystics, conjurors and clairvoyants, set in France and England during the late 1920s, Magic In The Moonlight harks back to the lamest titles in the Woody filmography.
  • (5) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
  • (6) Nor does it take a clairvoyant to imagine that Blair thinks Miliband has aligned himself with the wrong crowd (Blair would never, for example, have been seen as leader on a TUC demo or speaking at the Durham Miner's Gala ).
  • (7) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.
  • (8) For as long as Gibson has been a writer, he has had to remind people not to regard him as a clairvoyant.
  • (9) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
  • (10) The film's US distributors Sony Pictures Classics filled in lots of the blanks on10 July, when they released a long-form synopsis , explaining that Firth plays a stage magician who is on a mission to debunk professional clairvoyant Stone.
  • (11) Tom Binns's masterstroke is to couple his Montfort character with actual clairvoyant ability, or at least, a talent for simulating it.
  • (12) Yell.com listed 1,428 entries under "Psychics and Clairvoyants" when I started work on this in June.
  • (13) And while I don’t have the clairvoyance to predict which of the many cases currently winding their way through the courts will make its way first to the Supreme Court, what I do know is that the ruling in that case, like the decision in Windsor, will be in favor of equality.
  • (14) And there are all sorts of people there, like a retired colonel and a famous lady clairvoyant and an angry young man and a flighty young thing – isn't this just a fascinating cast of characters?
  • (15) Therapists are concerned that the courts are expecting them to be clairvoyant and that psychologists may not be able to predict dangerousness.
  • (16) The former school houses youth clubs, dance sessions, pensioners' get-togethers, and entertainment from taekwondo to clairvoyancy evenings.
  • (17) You saw the results.” The results made Snover look like a clairvoyant and her Republican peers look blind.
  • (18) The trail went cold until 2005, when a self-styled spiritual healer and clairvoyant, Mina Minic, answered a ring on his doorbell in Belgrade to find himself face-to-face with a tall man with a long bushy beard, abundant white hair done up in a top-knot tied with a black ribbon.
  • (19) When Brazil attacked they were thwarted by Bobby Moore who 'as always in this World Cup,' wrote Mcllvanney, 'was magnificent, interpreting the designs of the opposition with clairvoyant understanding and subduing their most spirited assaults with brusque authority.'
  • (20) One doesn’t have to be clairvoyant or even wait for the results, to discern the shape of the future.

Prophesy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
  • (v. t.) To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
  • (v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
  • (v. i.) To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staff say the most popular exhibits are interactive displays about end-of-the-world prophesies, though they stress that 21 December simply marks the change from one 5,125 year-era to another.
  • (2) This became clear in bizarre fashion last year, after a woman in Fort Mill, South Carolina, prophesied that Bristol was about to become “the healing capital of England”.
  • (3) You are the first writer I know of to have prophesied Ronald Reagan as president.
  • (4) In 1940, Henry Ford prophesied that “a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming.
  • (5) Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough.
  • (6) Four were arrested in Hebei and Sichuan provinces for distributing cataclysm-themed leaflets, and another four in the south-western metropolis Chongqing for prophesying via megaphone on the city's streets.
  • (7) Bugarach, a tiny French village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, was – according to an internet rumour no one has ever got to the bottom of – said by Mayans to be the only place on Earth to survive the apocalypse prophesied for 21 December.
  • (8) This paper addresses the questions of how older, regular users learn to live with these apparent contradictions, how they are influenced by legal sanctions and informal controls, and why they have not (as prophesied in the early 1970s) become an active force for drug law reform.
  • (9) The Spearman-Brown Prophesy formula, derived from psychometrics, may be used in anthropometric studies to describe the relationship between the intraclass reliability coefficient for a single measurement and the reliability resulting from the mean of replicate measurements.
  • (10) The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet.
  • (11) Having casually prophesied the death of Robbie Williams and co, Moir moves on to her main point: that Gately's death strikes her as a bit fishy .
  • (12) But, he added, persecution was "no surprise for Christians because Jesus prophesied it".
  • (13) Although these prophesies have been proven false, many physiological alterations do occur in microgravity conditions.
  • (14) The intensive-care pediatrician who prophesies to parents that their child's illness is irreversible may encounter denial and hostility.
  • (15) It’s impossible to say who will win Unite’s election, but the outcome is not a prophesy for Unite’s support of Corbyn Thus, if Coyne was to become the next general secretary of Unite, it’s likely he would find his hands are tied.
  • (16) When he first read Heart of Darkness , Lindqvist took Conrad to be prophesying what was coming rather than writing about what he had seen.
  • (17) It would be ironic were the trash talk to become a self-fulfilling prophesy, resulting in weaker than expected growth, revenue downgrades and a budget deficit blow out.
  • (18) "The contagion that is eating its way through the Spanish and Italian and other European bond markets has a self-prophesying element to it.
  • (19) Labour in turmoil as it tries to prophesy its future from its past Read more Harman, who will call for non-party members to be invited to public hustings in parts of the country where Labour failed to win, will say: “We will have strict rules to ensure there is a level playing field for each one of the candidates.
  • (20) Some Chinese people have found less subversive ways of dealing with the prophesy.