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Someone who is an interpreter of the will of God
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prophet
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In religion , a prophet is an individual who has claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine , and to speak for them, serving as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a prophet of doom (= someone who says that something bad is going to happen ) ▪ The prophets of doom were confounded when the team won the championship. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE false ▪ There were too many ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., "person who speaks for God; one who foretells, inspired preacher," from Old French prophete , profete "prophet, soothsayer" (11c., Modern French prophète ) and directly from Latin propheta , from Greek prophetes (Doric prophatas ) "an interpreter, ...
Usage examples of prophet.
The increasing myriads, who acknowledged Mahomet as their king and prophet, had been compelled by his arms, or allured by his prosperity.
Amer deplored, in pathetic strains, the apostasy and damnation of a son, who had renounced the promises of God, and the intercession of the prophet, to occupy, with the priests and deacons, the lowest mansions of hell.
Malevolent Being in the early ages of the world, and the fall of man is attributed in the Boundehesch to an apostate worship of him, from which men were converted by a succession of prophets terminating with Zoroaster.
Again, the explosion of balked fury, as he cut Alithiel downward to gut the Mad Prophet like a rabbit.
Hebrew Prophets, in his terrible denunciations of the heartless manslayer, and the shameless, boastful profligate.
In a crook tucked amid the steep-sided foothills, beneath evergreens mantled like ermine-cloaked matrons, the Mad Prophet dropped his reins and dismounted.
The blast transformed Jadrack, and the cathedral of the holy prophet Moop , and the town in which it stood, to a fine radioactive dust.
Breath hissed between his clenched teeth, the Mad Prophet mustered his assemblage of joints and plaintively shambled erect.
And yet modern and magnificent are those utterances of the old Hebrew prophet, who had so completely outgrown the common customs even of his time, when he represents God as saying that he is weary of all these external offerings.
A long silence followed his ringing speech, and Kadem stood with arms outspread like the Prophet himself.
Arcturus, founder and sole prophet of the Panspermic Church of First Contact, replied with the weary resignation of one who was accustomed to being mocked by an unbelieving world.
On the contrary we find his prophets and lawgivers battling with all their force against such aspects of Pantheism as they found about them.
Go, while I undress, to the prophet Gagabu and beg him to send the pastophorus Teta, who usually accompanies me.
I fear I should be content to devote my faith to the false prophet of the Schismites if they could lend me a pentangle, a lantern and a clove of garlic.
Manuel a pure man, General Foy a great one, Casimir Perier without ambition, Lafayette a political prophet, and Courier a worthy fellow.