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Definition of Prophesies
1. prophesy [v] - See also: prophesy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prophesies
Literary usage of Prophesies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts; Being Concentrated Extracts by Stephen D. Carpenter (1864)
"Goy. Stone admits this an "Abolition War"...A Short Tack after the Gale of
1862,.."New York Trib'nnie" ...More prophesies by False Prophets. ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... pack or multitude of hypocritical, heretical, blasphemous, and most scandalous
wicked men, that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the Scripture, ..."
3. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"prophesies peace between England and America. — Estimates of Morse's character
by Dr. Romeyn and Mr. Van Schaick. — The father regrets reproof of son for ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... such a vigorous melody as that in which he compares the oppression of Ireland
to the captivity of the Jews and prophesies the destruction of her tyrant. ..."
5. Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey, Thomas Browne (1890)
"prophesies. CICERO de Divinatione, Lib. I. gentem quidem nullam video, ...
To pass by the prophesies of holy writ, the prophesies of Nostradamus do foretel ..."
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