All 3 Uses of
prophesy
in
Leaves of Grass
- As in a waking vision,
E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
Its manifold ensemble.†Chpt 13 *prophesy = predict
- I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
I merely thee ejaculate!†Chpt 31
- these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophesy.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(prophesy) predict or reveal -- especially through, or as if through, divine inspiration
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus