different between prophesy vs prophecy
prophesy
English
Etymology
From Middle English prophecien; partly from prophecie, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie (“prophecy”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??f?sa?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p??f?sa?/
Verb
prophesy (third-person singular simple present prophesies, present participle prophesying, simple past and past participle prophesied)
- To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. [from 14th c.]
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Joel 2:28,[1]
- And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “Not every day fit for Verse” in Hesperides, London: John Williams & Francis Eglesfield, p. 285,[2]
- ’Tis not ev’ry day, that I
- Fitted am to prophesie:
- No, but when the Spirit fils
- The fantastick Pannicles:
- Full of fier; then I write
- As the Godhead doth indite.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Oxford: Heinemann, 1996, Part One, Chapter Eleven, p. 70,[3]
- […] at that very moment a loud and high-pitched voice broke the outer silence of the night. It was Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, prophesying. There was nothing new in that. Once in a while Chielo was possessed by the spirit of her god and she began to prophesy.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Joel 2:28,[1]
- To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration). [from 14th c.]
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
- Then I perceive that will be verified
- Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy
- ‘If once he come to be a cardinal,
- He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.’
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 22:8,[5]
- He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
- 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 5,[6]
- People prophesied a long continuance to this already lengthened frost; said the spring would be very late; no spring fashions required; no summer clothing purchased for a short uncertain summer.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 745:
- ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
- To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, Scene 3,[7]
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy
- A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, Scene 3,[7]
- (intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach. [from 14th c.]
- 1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73,[8]
- […] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.
- 1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73,[8]
Related terms
- prophecy
- prophesier
- prophesize (nonstandard)
- prophet
- prophetic
- prophetize
Translations
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prophecy
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)
- A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
- French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
- 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)
- (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);
- 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
Middle English
Noun
prophecy
- Alternative form of prophecie
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