Both Uses of
prophecy
in
The War of the Worlds
- His prophecy, I remember, appeared in November or December, 1893, in a long-defunct publication, the Pall Mall Budget, and I recall a caricature of it in a pre-Martian periodical called Punch.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- It was a paper on the probable development of Moral Ideas with the development of the civilising process; and the last sentence was the opening of a prophecy: "In about two hundred years," I had written, "we may expect——"†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)