prophet
noun
a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
prophet-like
-
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
Abraham stands in the centre of the group, a fine, prophet-like, "green old man," with a mild decision in his eye, from which there is evidently no appeal.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Thy voice might prophet-like unclose Its bonds, and bid those waters start, But why disturb their sweet repose?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
