Prophesy vs Confess - What's the difference?
prophesy | confess |
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.
(senseid) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Addison
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
* Bible, Matthew x. 32
* Bible, Acts xxiii. 8
(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution.
* Addison
(religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
* Ld. Berners
(senseid) To disclose or reveal.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between prophesy and confess
is that prophesy is to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet while confess is (senseid) to admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.prophesy
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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.
confess
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Verb
(es)- People confess to anything under torture.
- I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.
- And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
- I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess' me before men, him will I ' confess , also, before my Father which is in heaven.
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
- He heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed .
- Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mould.