All 5 Uses of
prophecy
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride.†
Chpt 3 *
- It had shocked him, too, when he had felt for the first time beneath his tremulous fingers the brittle texture of a woman's stocking for, retaining nothing of all he read save that which seemed to him an echo or a prophecy of his own state, it was only amid soft-worded phrases or within rose-soft stuffs that he dared to conceive of the soul or body of a woman moving with tender life.†
Chpt 4
- Now, as never before, his strange name seemed to him a prophecy.†
Chpt 4
- Was it a quaint device opening a page of some medieval book of prophecies and symbols, a hawk-like man flying sunward above the sea, a prophecy of the end he had been born to serve and had been following through the mists of childhood and boyhood, a symbol of the artist forging anew in his workshop out of the sluggish matter of the earth a new soaring impalpable imperishable being?†
Chpt 4
- Was it a quaint device opening a page of some medieval book of prophecies and symbols, a hawk-like man flying sunward above the sea, a prophecy of the end he had been born to serve and had been following through the mists of childhood and boyhood, a symbol of the artist forging anew in his workshop out of the sluggish matter of the earth a new soaring impalpable imperishable being?†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)