prophesy
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict.
had been prophesying
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past perfect progressiveof prophesy.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Only slowly did men realize that World War II was what Europe's writers had been prophesying about.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its editor, Jim Grant, had been prophesying doom ever since the great debt cycle began, in the mid-1980s.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
"Old Traps" had returned all safe enough, and had been prophesying "the boys" were lost, and would not soon be found again.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
Uncle Jabez had been prophesying disaster ever since she had known him.
From Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson
Then he followed the indications of his nose, which already for some minutes had been prophesying to him that in the concoction of the supper Helen had surpassed herself.
From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett
