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Prophesy vs Guess - What's the difference?

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Prophesy is a related term of guess.


As verbs the difference between prophesy and guess

is that prophesy is to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet while guess is to reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

As a noun guess is

a prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

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

    guess

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
  • To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
    • He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
  • (chiefly, US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
    • That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Not all together; better far, I guess , / That we do make our entrance several ways.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
    Synonyms
    * hypothesize * take a stab * speculate
    Derived terms
    * foreguess * guess what * guessable * guesser * guessing game * guesstimate * guesswork * keep someone guessing * no prize for guessing * out-guess * second-guess * you'll never guess

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gesse. Cognate with (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
    • If you don't know the answer, take a guess .
  • *
    • Synonyms
    * estimate * hypothesis * prediction
    Derived terms
    * another-guess * anyone's guess * by guess or by gosh * educated guess * guesswork * guesstimate * otherguess * take a guess * your guess is as good as mine

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