All 3 Uses of
prophetic
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.†
Chpt 3.15
- If he had given any utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use.†
Chpt 3.15
Definition:
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(prophetic) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention