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proph·et·ess

(prŏf′ĭ-tĭs)

1. A woman who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.

2. A woman predictor; a woman soothsayer.

3. The chief spokeswoman of a movement or cause. See Usage Note at -ess.

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proph•et•ess

(ˈprɒf ɪ tɪs)

n.

1. a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.

2. a woman who foretells the future.

3. a woman who speaks for some doctrine, cause, or movement.

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Noun

prophetess - a woman prophet

oracle, prophesier, prophet, vaticinator, seer - an authoritative person who divines the future

prophetess

noun

A person who foretells future events by or as if by supernatural means:

augur, auspex, diviner, foreteller, haruspex, prophesier, prophet, seer, sibyl, soothsayer, vaticinator.

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prophetess

[ˈprɒfɪtɪs] N → profetisa f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

prophetess

n → Prophetin f

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prophetess

[ˈprɒfɪtɪs] n → profetessa

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A prophetess? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophetess--a uncommon pretty young woman."

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She stood up, straight and stern, and her face, as she looked towards the land, was lit with the fire of the prophetess.

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Hannah `felt in her bones' that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success.

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She might, in one of her phases, have been a prophetess. She might, and not improbably would, have suffered death from the stern tribunals of the period, for attempting to undermine the foundations of the Puritan establishment.

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"On his way to Perth, the king was met by a Highland woman, calling herself a prophetess; she stood at the side of the ferry by which he was about to travel to the north, and cried with a loud voice, 'My lord the king, if you pass this water you will never return again alive!'"--(VIDE the HISTORY OF SCOTLAND).

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Deborah, the prophetess, told Barak to take ten thousand men and sally forth against another King Jabin who had been doing something.

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My father turned his back on the prophetess with a smile of contempt.

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I am not a prophetess, but I shall venture on a prediction.

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"What can I tell you?" Helen reflected, speaking more to herself in a rambling style than as a prophetess delivering a message.

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They say that as he was approaching the temple, the prophetess became inspired and said:

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Well, Chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his doings, and he went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whether--as I was saying, I must beg you not to interrupt--he asked the oracle to tell him whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian prophetess answered, that there was no man wiser.

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"Signor Pastrini," returned Franz, "you are more susceptible than Cassandra, who was a prophetess, and yet no one believed her; while you, at least, are sure of the credence of half your audience.