All 3 Uses of
prophetic
in
The Mill on the Floss
- "There it is, Bessy; it's what I've been telling you," said Mrs. Pullet, in a tone of prophetic sadness; "it's your children,—there's no knowing what they'll come to."†
Chpt 1.10 *
- Maggie always writhed under this judgment of Tom's; she rebelled and was humiliated in the same moment; it seemed as if he held a glass before her to show her her own folly and weakness, as if he were a prophetic voice predicting her future fallings; and yet, all the while, she judged him in return; she said inwardly that he was narrow and unjust, that he was below feeling those mental needs which were often the source of the wrong-doing or absurdity that made her life a planless…†
Chpt 6.4
- To the world's wife there had always been something in Miss Tulliver's very physique that a refined instinct felt to be prophetic of harm.†
Chpt 7.2
Definition:
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(prophetic) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention