The Only Use of
prophecy
in
The Mill on the Floss
- But that same Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.†
Chpt 1.5prophecies = predictions of the future
Definition:
a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)