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Prophesy vs Forbode - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between prophesy and forbode

is that prophesy is to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet while forbode is form of forbid|lang=en.

As a noun forbode is

a forbidding, prohibition.

prophesy

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
  • To predict, to foretell.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
    • He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Then I perceive that will be verified / Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy .
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 745:
    • ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
  • To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Methought thy very gait did prophesy / A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.
  • (Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.

    • Related terms

    * prophecy * prophet * prophetic * prophetize

    forbode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forbode, forbod, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forbidding, prohibition.
  • A command forbidding a thing.
    • God's/The Lord's forbode

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • .

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) foreboden, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * forebode (much more commonly used)

    Verb

    (forbod)
  • To portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen.
    • The dark clouds forbode of fierce storms.
    Synonyms
    * (to portend or foretell) foretell, portend, predict