All 6 Uses of
prophetic
in
Middlemarch
- "That is what I expect, you know," said Mr. Brooke, not wishing to betray how little he enjoyed this prophetic sketch—"what I expect as an independent man.†
Chpt 1
- If his prophetic soul had been urged to particularize, it seemed to him that "fits" would have been the definite expression alighted upon.†
Chpt 3 *
- No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg.†
Chpt 4
- Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of representing the tingling returns of old habit, and the caprices of young blood: but there was lurking in him a prophetic sense that evening, that when he began to play he should also begin to bet—that he should enjoy some punch-drinking, and in general prepare himself for feeling "rather seedy" in the morning.†
Chpt 7
- If Bulstrode should turn out to be a rascal, Frank Hawley had a prophetic soul.†
Chpt 7
- It contained that concentrated experience which in great crises of emotion reveals the bias of a nature, and is prophetic of the ultimate act which will end an intermediate struggle.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(prophetic) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention