prophetess

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The 5-inch drawing depicts the right foot of the Libyan Sibyl, a blonde prophetess wearing a creamsicle gown painted onto the chapel ceiling’s eastern end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

The wife, whom the Assemblies described as the prophetess, was later released following an unspecified medical episode, police said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

“She has overturned heaven and earth for us,” a young prophetess announces.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2017

Lozen An Apache warrior and prophetess, Lozen was the sister of the great chief Victorio, living in Arizona in the mid 19th century.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2015

Hannah ‘felt in her bones’ that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott