All 18 Uses
prophecy
in
Circe
(Edited)
- He used his prophecy voice, the one that spoke of future certainties.
p. 8.9prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
- Then my great-uncle Kronos had heard a prophecy that his child would one day overthrow him.
p. 15.1
- My father blessed him, but spoke no prophecy, so my mother looked around for somewhere to leave him.
p. 27.1prophecy = prediction of the future
- Prometheus was a god of prophecy.
p. 29.6prophecy = supernatural predictions of the future
- Prophecy talk.
p. 30.6prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
- Perhaps my wish to turn him immortal was a kind of prophecy.
p. 50.2
- I heard a prophecy of you.
p. 98.9
- "That's the worst prophecy I've ever heard," I said.
p. 99.3
- 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.
p. 129.4
- "Do you know," I said, "Hermes told me a prophecy about you once."
p. 204.4
- I'm afraid that is the dullest prophecy I've ever heard.
p. 204.6
- But as I said, his mother was a goddess, and prophecies hung on him like ocean-weed.
p. 211.2prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future
- I come with a prophecy for Odysseus.
p. 229.3prophecy = prediction of the future
- My vessels must have prophecy in their blood.
p. 230.2prophecy = supernatural prediction of the future
- The prophecy is delivered.
p. 230.4
- I did not tell him the prophecy.
p. 230.7
- It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.
p. 291.6 *
- But I remembered now Teiresias' prophecy as clearly as if Odysseus had just spoken it.
p. 302.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)