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a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)

prophecy = prediction of the future

prophecy = prediction

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2 (NIV)
It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

prophecy = prediction of the future

That would not fulfil the prophecy.
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

prophecy = prediction of the future

prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future

prophecy = prediction of the future

Even if you succeeded, you heard the prophecy: unleashing Hera's rage would mean your destruction.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

prophecy = prediction

prophecy = prediction

prophecy = (ability of) prediction of the future

But I remembered now Teiresias' prophecy as clearly as if Odysseus had just spoken it.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

prophecy = prediction of the future

But as I said, his mother was a goddess, and prophecies hung on him like ocean-weed.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future

I'm afraid that is the dullest prophecy I've ever heard.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

"Do you know," I said, "Hermes told me a prophecy about you once."
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

Among the gods there are a few who have the gift of prophecy, the ability to peer into the murk and glimpse what fates will come.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future

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