prophesy
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict.
had prophesied
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past perfectof prophesy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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From the heights of the hills, just as the security officer had prophesied, Futhu watched his world turn to ashes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
“Wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill,” John Winthrop had prophesied.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
His friend John Cage, the composer, philosopher, and Pied Piper to several generations of would-be radicals in all fields, had prophesied the new direction much earlier, in a 1957 lecture “Experimental Music.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 27, 2016
There was Durand, dangling under his Red Bull-sponsored wing, who had prophesied that morning, “I’ve got a good feeling about today.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2013
I had noticed other little evidences of the envy and of the jealousy which Mr. Muhammad had prophesied.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
