prophesy
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict.
is prophesying
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present progressiveof prophesy (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Alice is prophesying," I said; "she is going to take Father Letheby out of his purgatory on Monday."
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
Therefore, when a Christian preacher prophesies of times that are afar off, he is prophesying of present time, between which and the most distant eternity there is an iron nexus—a band which cannot be broken.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
Throughout the pamphlet there is a sad and fierce undertone, as of one knowing that what he is prophesying as easy will never come to pass.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson
"You must feel I am mad or a brute to want this child to go with me across the desert, to share the fate all Europe is prophesying."
From A Soldier of the Legion by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
At home, too, there is prophesying enough, vague hope enough, which for most part goes wide of the mark.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
