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prophetess

[ prof-i-tis ]

noun

  1. a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
  2. a woman who foretells future events.
  3. a woman who is aspokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
  4. the wife or female companion of a prophet.


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Gender Note

See -ess.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of prophetess1

1250–1300; Middle English prophetesse < Old French < Late Latin ±è°ù´Ç±è³óŧ³Ù¾±²õ²õ²¹. See prophet, -ess
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Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.

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Hannah ‘felt in her bones’ that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success.

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To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.

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Then, together, prophetess and hero started on their journey.

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Nearby the Avenue de la Sibelle conjured a prophetess of Antiquity.

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