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  • My father blessed him, but spoke no prophecy, so my mother looked around for somewhere to leave him.  (source)
  • Even if you succeeded, you heard the prophecy: unleashing Hera's rage would mean your destruction.  (source)
    prophecy = prediction
  • Yet the boy fitted the ancient prophecy so precisely.  (source)
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  • That would not fulfil the prophecy.  (source)
    prophecy = prediction of the future
  • All his prophecies come true.  (source)
    prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future
  • And it came to passe, when the Spirit rested upon them, they Prophecyed, and did not cease, By which it is manifest, first, that their Prophecying to the people, was subservient, and subordinate to the Prophecying of Moses; for that God took of the Spirit of Moses, to put upon them; so that they Prophecyed as Moses would have them: otherwise they had not been suffered to Prophecy at all.†  (source)
  • On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades, for his prophecyings had now been spoken, but I sat still where I was until my mother came up and tasted the blood.†  (source)
  • Do you have some prophecy that I do not?†  (source)
    prophecy = prediction of the future
  • "Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!" said Bilbo.  (source)
    prophecies = predictions of the future
  • &C) to know a Spirit by: and seeing there is so much Prophecying in the Old Testament; and so much Preaching in the New Testament against Prophets; and so much greater a number ordinarily of false Prophets, then of true; every one is to beware of obeying their directions, at their own perill.†  (source)
  • My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.†  (source)
  • I learned about millennialist prophecy and convinced myself that the world would end in 2007.†  (source)
    prophecy = prediction of the future
  • The multiplying of wealth and a bountiful harvest should do the trick in the short run, and people always forget about prophecies unless they come true.†  (source)
    prophecies = predictions of the future
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