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How to use prophecy in a sentence

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Again, the great hymnographers, themselves saints, show a wonderful concentration of prophecy and fulfillment.
The real danger of resting on this comfortable pew is that we've come to expect our place in the world to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The residents largely believed, however, in an ancient prophecy that said the city was safe from its enemies during the waxing phase of the Moon.
Ocyrhoe was Chiron's daughter born of a water nymph, and she had the gift of prophecy.
God will often use men to offer a verbal rebuke through prophecy or admonishment before disciplining us.
It is an age of miracles and wonders, of sightings of Mary and warnings, of prophecy, graces and gifts.
As I understand it, this isn't allegory, but literal truth, a prophecy that will someday be realised.
They prepared the way for the Romantics to take up poetry as prophecy, the poet as prophet.
If prophecy held, the children born under the seventh moon of the lunar year would be the generation to right old wrongs.
Thus, infallibility is a negative charism, not a positive act of inspired prophecy.
Jesus fulfilled that prophecy in his day, riding into Jerusalem in peace, as the evangelists tell us in the Passion narrative.
On the other hand prophecy through visions of angels is low down on the scale.
The confidence man's utter self-assurance can sometimes become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
They start spending all their time in bed and their muscles atrophy and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Williams told everyone who would listen that his players were useless, and it eventually proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Convince the electorate that membership is inevitable and it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Some have warned that labelling children in this way can be counterproductive, perhaps proving to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Wishing will ensure that nothing changes, fulfilling the self-fulfilling prophecy.
To me this stereotype, like many, if not all stereotypes, was nothing but a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Over the years, the curse has served as a blanket term for a variety of shortcomings and has been something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It has often been said that Napier never wrote anything that could bo fairly interpreted as a warning against or a prophecy of a sepoy mutiny.
More than his ambassadress to the tzin, she bore his prophecy to the generations of the future.
And he arose from his bed with joy and woke all his comrades hurriedly and told them the prophecy of Mopsus the son of Ampycus.
On the Divine side all prophecy is certain, but on the human it can only be approximated.
And I thought that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy, would not fail.
The continuator of Jeremiah goes on heaping prophecy upon prophecy without any regard to dates, until at last, in chap.
You see, my dear Miss Corby, that my prophecy to you on the terrace at Ravenshoe is falsified.
It is curious to observe how exactly the prophecy of the Druidess has been fulfilled with regard to these hedgehogs.
They even believe them endowed with something celestial and the spirit of prophecy.
The Scandinavian name for women endowed with the gift of prophecy was fanae, fanes.
If either was correct in his prophecy as to the result of free coinage, the other was doomed to disappointment.
Infuriated by this prophecy of woe, the guilty people, at the command of their guiltier king, stoned him to death.
Therefore the prophecy of Haggai was not fulfilled in the rebuilding of that temple.
He has been deluded by a high-sounding prophecy, and it has come to little.
My cousin said he prayed that her prophecy might come true, but I remained hard and stockish.
This earth is made too subtly, of too multiple warp and woof, for prophecy.
I had come across the Futuroscope, otherwise a kinetoscope with the gift of prophecy.
In lawbook as in prophecy, it is the fact of redemption which forms the main ground of His appeal.
This is a muggletonian prophecy of the destruction of the world at a certain date.
Hence this prophecy is, mutatis mutandis, an abridgment of that concerning Moab.
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