prophetical
Example Sentences
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His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2019
To be a patriarch, one need not retire into prophetical obscurity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing that many prophetical media see the future in a series of pictures, it struck me that Lottie must have seen this coffin leaving, and mistaken the house for mine.
From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence
It was, however, a prophetical whisper, and soon found its accomplishment in the source that Franklin predicted—the barbarity of Britain.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke
But it will be affirmed that Jacob's assertion was prophetical, that he foresaw the time when Judah would have the kingly power among his brethren, which did not occur till the time of David.
From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel
