prophet
noun
a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
prophet-like
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a word derived from
prophet.
Example Sentences
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“He’s a prophet-like figure,” said Pu Zhiqiang, a human rights lawyer based in Beijing who was disbarred because of his own advocacy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
It follows a prophet-like figure who returns to a rundown village, but it’s all about the spell that the crisply desolate images exert.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2020
A noble singularity, pervading his whole person, and a something sublime in his very simplicity, added to his characteristics a certain prophet-like air.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
Who doubts the daylight when he sees afar The fading lamp of some night-weary star, Which prophet-like, has heard amid the dark The first faint prelude of the nested lark?
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
Strange tableau, in this our would-be grand nineteenth century,—a young and poor woman prophet-like rebuking a wealthy London merchant on his own hearth-rug, as a worshipper of Mammon!
From The Vicar's Daughter by George MacDonald
