Prophesy vs Bode - What's the difference?
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To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
To predict, to foretell.
* Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
* Shakespeare
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 745:
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
* Shakespeare
(Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
As verbs the difference between prophesy and bode
is that prophesy is to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet while bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.As a noun bode is
an omen; a foreshadowing.As a proper noun Bode is
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English
Verb
(en-verb)- He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
- Then I perceive that will be verified / Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy .
- ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy / A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.
bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .
