Both Uses of
prophetic
in
The Scarlet Letter
- There was always a prophetic instinct, a low whisper in my ear, that within no long period, and whenever a new change of custom should be essential to my good, change would come.†
p. 23.9 *
- But the little stream would not be comforted, and still kept telling its unintelligible secret of some very mournful mystery that had happened—or making a prophetic lamentation about something that was yet to happen—within the verge of the dismal forest.†
p. 126.8
Definition:
foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention