Both Uses of
prophecy
in
War and Peace
- One of his brother Masons had revealed to Pierre the following prophecy concerning Napoleon, drawn from the Revelation of St. John.†
Chpt 9 *
- This prophecy pleased Pierre very much and he often asked himself what would put an end to the power of the beast, that is, of Napoleon, and tried by the same system of using letters as numbers and adding them up, to find an answer to the question that engrossed him.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)