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
This Review, in pronouncing upon the young author's future career, showed itself somewhat more "prophet-like" than the great oracle of the North.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
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 MacDonald, George
Even amid the terrible blight of war and its final utter ruin, prophet-like, he speaks in faith and hope and courage.
From The Poems of Henry Timrod by Timrod, Henry
