(prophesies, prophesying, prophesied, prophesied) to say what will happen in the future (done in the past using religious or magic powers):
[VN] to prophesy war * The event was prophesied in the Old Testament. * [Vthat] She prophesied that she would win a gold medal. [also Vspeech]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for prophesy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is prophesy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, prophesy is tagged as verb.
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