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prophecy 【prophecy】n.预言The teacher's prophecy that the boy would become a great national leader was later fulfilled.老师曾预言这男孩会成为一位伟大的国家领袖，这预言后来实现了。

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['prɑːfəsi] 
prophecya prediction uttered under divine inspiration
If a fortune teller made a prophecy that you were going to become a billionaire in your lifetime, you'd be pretty excited. A prophecy is a prediction, or a magical look into the future.
The noun prophecy means a magical foreknowledge, although it can also be used in a playful way to describe an ordinary guess or prediction about the future. So you could say, "Her prophecy for the weather next week is incredibly depressing." The word comes from the Greek prophetia — literally, "gift of interpreting the will of the gods". The verb form is prophesy, or predict, and it's spelled with an s instead of a c.
All forms of 'prophecy' will appear on average once every 402 pages.propheticalprophecyprophetpropheticpropheticallyunprophetic
CHOOSE RIGHT WORDS: PROPHECY-PROPHESY
			
      One  letter separates prophecy from prophesy, and the close relationship is  derived from a shared word history.
      A prophecy is a prediction or an utterance  from a prophet inspired by his god. It entered English before 1200 with two  spellings: prophecie and prophesie. It was borrowed from the Old  French prophetie/prophecie/prophesie, which  originated in Late Latin and Greek.

Some psychological professionals swear by the power of the  self-fulfilling prophecy.
        
          What are your thoughts on how Egypt relates to biblical  prophecy?
        
          To think that such a rodent has these abilities of prophecy!

To prophesy is to predict something or  to utter something inspired by one's god. It pops up in English in about 1350  as prophecien and prophesien, coming through the Old  French prophecier.

But we want to know why you do not prophesy like other  prophets, especially on the political situation of Nigeria or at the beginning  of the year?
        
          I prophesy that the GOP will lie right through its teeth in  50 years and take credit for the "Affordable Health Care" law.
        
          "Ryan Seacrest will be mine someday," prophesied 17-year-old  Courtney Penry of Missouri City, Texas, when American Idol auditions touched  down in Austin.

Until  1700, the noun and the verb were spelled the same. However, the differentiated  spelling may be disappearing already. Garner's  Modern American Usage notes that prophesy for prophecy is at stage 3 of  language change: it's common even among educated speakers and writers.

Front	prophecy
Pron	['prɑːfəsi]
Back	【prophecy】 n.预言 The teacher's prophecy that the boy would become a great national leader was later fulfilled. 老师曾预言这男孩会成为一位伟大的国家领袖，这预言后来实现了。
Vocab	prophecya prediction uttered under divine inspiration If a fortune teller made a prophecy that you were going to become a billionaire in your lifetime, you'd be pretty excited. A prophecy is a prediction, or a magical look into the future. The noun prophecy means a magical foreknowledge, although it can also be used in a playful way to describe an ordinary guess or prediction about the future. So you could say, "Her prophecy for the weather next week is incredibly depressing." The word comes from the Greek prophetia — literally, "gift of interpreting the will of the gods". The verb form is prophesy, or predict, and it's spelled with an s instead of a c. All forms of 'prophecy' will appear on average once every 402 pages. prophetical prophecy prophet prophetic prophetically unprophetic CHOOSE RIGHT WORDS: PROPHECY-PROPHESY One letter separates prophecy from prophesy, and the close relationship is derived from a shared word history. A prophecy is a prediction or an utterance from a prophet inspired by his god. It entered English before 1200 with two spellings: prophecie and prophesie. It was borrowed from the Old French prophetie/prophecie/prophesie, which originated in Late Latin and Greek. Some psychological professionals swear by the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy. What are your thoughts on how Egypt relates to biblical prophecy? To think that such a rodent has these abilities of prophecy! To prophesy is to predict something or to utter something inspired by one's god. It pops up in English in about 1350 as prophecien and prophesien, coming through the Old French prophecier. But we want to know why you do not prophesy like other prophets, especially on the political situation of Nigeria or at the beginning of the year? I prophesy that the GOP will lie right through its teeth in 50 years and take credit for the "Affordable Health Care" law. "Ryan Seacrest will be mine someday," prophesied 17-year-old Courtney Penry of Missouri City, Texas, when American Idol auditions touched down in Austin. Until 1700, the noun and the verb were spelled the same. However, the differentiated spelling may be disappearing already. Garner's Modern American Usage notes that prophesy for prophecy is at stage 3 of language change: it's common even among educated speakers and writers.

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