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prophesy • verb (prophesies, prophesying, prophesied) [with obj.] say that (a specified thing) will happen in the future: Jacques was prophesying a bumper harvest | — derivatives prophesier noun. — origin — usage The words prophesy and prophe! cy are often confused; prophesy is the spelling that should be used for the verb (he was prophesying a bumper harvest), whereas prophecy is the correct spelling for the noun (a bleak prophecy of war and ruin). The differentiation between the spellings of the noun and verb was not established until after 1700 and has no etymological basis, prophesy being at first a spelling variant of both the noun and the verb. Pronunciation available online: www.askoxford.com Source: Oxford Dictionary of English Useful links from around OUP Celebrating the new edition of the Shorter Oxford English DictionaryFind out about OUP's Online Products: Launching September 2007 Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: Special offer disgo and busbi USB keys - preloaded with a 30 day trial of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: We hope you have enjoyed your word of the day. However, if you wish to be removed from the mailing list please visit: Copyright © Oxford University Press 2008 |
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