Synonyms for prophesy
ˈprɒf əˌsaɪproph·esy

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1. prophesy

   "Persons or things augur; persons only forebode or presage; things only betoken or portend." Crabb English Synonymes. We augur well for a voyage from past good fortune and a good start; we presage success from the stanchness of the ship and the skill of the captain. We forebode misfortune either from circumstances that betoken failure, or from gloomy fancies for which we could not give a reason. Dissipation among the officers and mutiny among the crew portend disaster. Divine has reference to the ancient soothsayers' arts (as in Gen. xliv, 5, 15), and refers rather to reading hearts than to reading the future. We say I could not divine his motive, or his intention.

   Synonyms:
   augur, betoken, bode, divine, forebode, foretell, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate

   Antonyms:
   assure, calculate, demonstrate, determine, establish, insure, make sure, prove, settle, warrant

   Preposition:
   I augur from all circumstances a prosperous result; I augur ill of the enterprise; "augurs ill to the rights of the people," Thomas Jefferson Writings vol. ii, p. 506. [Taylor, Walton & Maberley '53.] I augur well, or this augurs well, for your cause.

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1. prophesy, vaticinateverb

   predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration

   Synonyms:
   vaticinate, preach

2. preach, prophesyverb

   deliver a sermon

   "The minister is not preaching this Sunday"

   Synonyms:
   vaticinate, preach, advocate

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1. prophesyverb

   Synonyms:
   predict, foretell, prognosticate, VATICINATE, divine

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1. prophesyverb

   Synonyms:
   prognosticate, foretell, divine, augur, predict, vaticinate

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1. List of paraphrases for "prophesy":

   prophecy

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How to use prophesy in a sentence?

1. George Macaulay Trevelyan:

   History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

2. Michael Adams:

   It's beginning to potentially pose a threat to us running a good election in November, and then these people that are behind all this will say,' You can't trust these government officials. They can't run the election.' It's a self-fulfilling prophesy they are trying to bring about.

3. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   I did say. Reggae is rastafarian, prophesy, and message giving. It aims to unite people in a loving way, so we can stop all this hatred, racism, and killings. I think the music industry is trying to take that spirit out of it and really secularize it- but that will never happen! it is the word of god speaking to his people.

4. Cecilia Frosinini:

   This story about what Clarke did is a very moving one, It was like a prophesy of what we are trying to do now. We too are trying to preserve works of art for future generations.