Both Uses
prophesy
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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- The city of Gopher Prairie welcomes her to our midst and prophesies for her many happy years in the energetic city of the twin lakes and the future.†
Chpt 5 *prophesies = predicts or reveals
- She did not, as the cynical matrons had prophesied, "give up worrying about the world and other folks' babies soon as she got one of her own to fight for."†
Chpt 20prophesied = predicted or revealed
Definitions:
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(1)
(prophesy) predict or reveal -- especially through, or as if through, divine inspirationNote that the noun, prophecy, is spelled differently than this verb (having a "c" rather than an "s").
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)