Prophecy vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
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A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
* 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition),
* Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge,
* 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge,
* 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge,
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Prophecy is a related term of foreboding.
As nouns the difference between prophecy and foreboding
is that prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.As verbs the difference between prophecy and foreboding
is that prophecy is while foreboding is .As an adjective foreboding is
of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.prophecy
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(wikipedia prophecy)Noun
(prophecies)- French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .
Derived terms
* self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecyVerb
(en-verb)page 19:
- The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
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- One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
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- The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
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- the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);
foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.