different between prophecy vs foreboding

English

Etymology

From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin proph?t?a, from Ancient Greek ????????? (proph?teía, “prophecy”), from ???????? (proph?t?s, “speaker of a god”), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ???? (ph?mí, “I tell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??f.?.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??f?si/

Noun

prophecy (countable and uncountable, plural prophecies)

1. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

   French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.

2. The public interpretation of Scripture.

Derived terms

• self-fulfilling prophecy
• self-defeating prophecy

Related terms

• prophesy
• prophet
• prophetic

Translations

Verb

prophecy (third-person singular simple present prophecies, present participle prophecying, simple past and past participle prophecied)

1. (chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy
   • 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:

     The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.

   • 2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142:

     One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]

   • 2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135:

     The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.

   • 2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85:

     the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

Middle English

Noun

prophecy

1. Alternative form of prophecie

English

Alternative forms

• forboding (much less commonly used)

Etymology

From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- +? boding. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).

Noun

foreboding (plural forebodings)

1. A sense of evil to come.

   Synonym: augury
2. An evil omen.

Translations

Adjective

foreboding (comparative more foreboding, superlative most foreboding)

1. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

Verb

foreboding

1. present participle of forebode