(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.
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.