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How to use prophetic in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective

Prophetic means having the ability to prophesize; prescient. Example: “Despite his intention, his work had the effect of revealing the mythological, prophetic, and utopian sense of Marxism which had eluded Marx's more scientistic followers.”

Examples of prophetic by meaning

adjectiveOf, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.

  • Despite his intention, his work had the effect of revealing the mythological, prophetic, and utopian sense of Marxism which had eluded Marx's more scientistic followers.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon...

More sentences with prophetic

  • You can't, for example, buy compassion or artistic abilities, and you can't buy prophetic giftings.2024, Debra Giles, Raising Prophetic Kids. From the entry gifting
  • Like the Babylonian dream-Goddess, Nanshe, Brizo brought prophetic dreams which were later called wet dreams.2013, Edward L. Nydle, The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man, page 94. From the entry brizomancy
  • Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine.1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11. From the entry python
  • Zhang again acted as a Confucian prophetic voice in the wilderness who called the people to truth.1994, David E. Mungello. The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou, page 153 (Google books view). From the entry voice in the wilderness
  • However, the company of those who hear a truly Christian and prophetic voice in Forsyth keeps growing.1975, Foundations, volume 18, page 185. From the entry antiquitarianism
  • The prophetic inspiration of Brizo, a goddess of sleep, gave rise to brizomancy.1961, H.E. Wedeck, Treasury of Witchcraft, page 220. From the entry brizomancy
  • This Chinese city was given the prophetic Russian name Vladivostok—Conqueror of the East.1949, Patrick A. McCarran, “Russian Imperialism in China”, in Congressional Record, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page…. From the entry Maritime Province
  • I am, even now, losing myself forever losing myself in my own prophetic utterances, alone in my Patmosian exile.2011, Mark Leach, Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry Patmosian
  • Can there be a more dubious moment in the entire poem than this precariously enjambed impersonation of prophetic forthspeaking?2008, Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's heroic muse, 1790-1910. From the entry forthspeaking
  • Unless the musicians themselves develop a prophetic lifestyle, the selah will be only an irritating piece of ritual.2003, Stan Smith, Prophetic Song: Gateway to Glory, [s.l.]: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry selah
  • Bakkus came steeped in horselore and confidently prophetic.1926, William John Locke, The Mountebank, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN. From the entry horselore
  • Swinburne, were to be traced back to startwords given by the prophetic author of the Seven Lamps of Architecture.1926, Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse, English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson. From the entry startword
  • This goat was intended to be prophetic of a victory over Chicago on the morrow — a capture of Chicago’s goat.1914: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), The Illio, volume 20, page 70. From the entry haedine
  • I have analysed a total of 24 prophetic glossas in this way, and 10 passages of the more easily intelligible prayer specimens of glossolalia.1975, Temenos, page 50. From the entry glossa
  • “NRx was a prophetic warning about the rise of the Alt-Right.” said Nick Land, the English philosopher whose Dark Enlightenment series is considered a foundational neoreactionary text.2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020. From the entry neoreactionary
  • Early in the morning, before the first forelight of dawn had started the birds to prophetic chirpings, the recluse heard light movements in the outer room.2014, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Success. From the entry forelight
  • This was similar to the Rambam's comment that the prophets would be misboded when they would want to attain prophecy, suggesting a link between davening and the prophetic state.1983, Aryeh Kaplan, The Aryeh Kaplan Reader: The Gift He Left Behind, →ISBN. From the entry misbode
  • However, regardless of evil portents, prophetic despair and a great deal too much writing on the wall, I have managed so far to write two fairly cheerful musical comedies.1965, Noël Coward, “Note on ‘The Sixties’”, in The Lyrics, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 361. From the entry writing on the wall
  • More affected by Cabbalic and Hermetic studies than Mede, he too uses allegory in his exposition of the Scriptures, and in teaching constantly quotes the prophetic books.1931, Henry More, Geoffrey Bullough, Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems. From the entry cabbalic
  • Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […]…. From the entry hortatory

Meaning of prophetic

  1. adjective Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
  2. adjective Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
  3. adjective Predicted, as by a prophecy.

Full definition of prophetic

Questions about prophetic in a sentence

How do you use prophetic in a sentence?
Prophetic is used as an adjective. For example: “Despite his intention, his work had the effect of revealing the mythological, prophetic, and utopian sense of Marxism which had eluded Marx's more scientistic followers.”
What is a short sentence with prophetic?
“Bakkus came steeped in horselore and confidently prophetic.”
What does prophetic mean?
Prophetic means having the ability to prophesize; prescient.

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