Both Uses of
prophetic
in
The Age of Innocence
- Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr. Luther Burbank's far-off prodigies.†
Chpt 1
- Another of Medora's fads—really this time it was almost prophetic!†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(prophetic) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention