Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

Usage examples of prophecy.

Blanche was due in great measure to the sinister prophecies of the accomplice to whom she had denied the last consolations of religion.

The assurance that the elevation of Constantine was intimately connected with the designs of Providence, instilled into the minds of the Christians two opinions, which, by very different means, assisted the accomplishment of the prophecy.

At the time when this prediction is said to have been delivered, no prophecy could be more distant from its accomplishment, since the first twelve years of Heraclius announced the approaching dissolution of the empire.

Ignoring prophecy, he held that nothing in the Old Testament has any other than a typical or allegorical bearing upon the New Testament.

Switters considered a similar, perhaps synchronous indulgence but decided instead to review the prophecies, about which he maintained, not altogether uncharacteristically, ambivalent feelings.

All-seeing Eye be the centre of many concentric circles, beholding equally in perspective the circumference of each, and for accordance with human periods of time measuring off segments by converging radii: separately marked on each segment of the wheel within wheel, in the way of actual fulfilment, as well as type and antitype, will appear its satisfied word of prophecy, shining onward yet as it becomes more and more final, until time is melted in eternity.

A priest of Assot, God of Music and Prophecy, had long ago declared that the Empire would endure until The Archer turned his bow.

Arthur Johnstone had celebrated in Latin verse, and regarding which Thomas the Rhymer had uttered prophecies, Campbell, unnoticed, followed Miss Bloomer, in the hope that fortune would favour him some day.

But, gentlemen, if this be indeed a prophecy, it should, methinks, bode well for our enterprise.

A Spaniard will rule and ruin Ireland Musha sure these are the prophecies of Saint Columcille.

If, finally, it be asked, how a system professing to be revealed can substantiate its claim, the answer is, by means of the historical evidences, such as miracles and fulfilment of prophecy.

Mahometans and Christians, some obscure prophecies which prognosticated their alternate defeats.

Mopsus, son of Ampycus, with word of prophecy urged them to land and propitiate him with libations.

Noting that he had flaming hair like yours, the Protectress thought him the divine begetter of the prophecy.

Over all the earth at once, now that the roar of the engine had stopped, there was an immense and brooding quietness, a drowsed autumnal fume and warmth, immensely desolate and mournful, holding somehow a tragic prophecy of winter that must come, and death, and yet touched with the lonely, mournful and exultant mystery of the earth.