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a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)- The prophecy came true.
prophecy = prediction of the future
- It was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- 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
- You have the gift of prophecy.Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- That would not fulfil the prophecy.C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- All his prophecies come true.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- Has Chiron even told you the prophecy?Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- Even if you succeeded, you heard the prophecy: unleashing Hera's rage would mean your destruction.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- Yet the boy fitted the ancient prophecy so precisely.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- He's got the gift of prophecy, supposedly.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- But I remembered now Teiresias' prophecy as clearly as if Odysseus had just spoken it.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- The prophecy is delivered.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- I did not tell him the prophecy.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- I come with a prophecy for Odysseus.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- But as I said, his mother was a goddess, and prophecies hung on him like ocean-weed.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- "Do you know," I said, "Hermes told me a prophecy about you once."Madeline Miller -- Circe
- I'm afraid that is the dullest prophecy I've ever heard.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- 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
- "That's the worst prophecy I've ever heard," I said.Madeline Miller -- Circe
prophecy = prediction
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = prediction of the future
prophecy = prediction of the future
prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future
prophecy = prediction of the future
prophecy = prediction
prophecy = prediction
prophecy = (ability of) prediction of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = prediction of the future
prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future