different between prophecy vs prevision

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

• prævision (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???v??(?)n/

Noun

prevision (countable and uncountable, plural previsions)

1. Advance knowledge; foresight.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

     The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.

2. A prediction.

Verb

prevision (third-person singular simple present previsions, present participle previsioning, simple past and past participle previsioned)

1. To predict or envision the future.