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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Her son Æsculapius being cut out of the womb of Coronis and carried to the cave of Chiron the Centaur, Ocyrrhoë, the daughter of Chiron, is changed into a mare, while she is prophesying.
From The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
That is, I am not a prophet by education: nor is prophesying my calling or profession: but I am a herdsman, whom God was pleased to send hither to prophesy to Israel.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 35: Amos The Challoner Revision by
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
"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
