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prophetess
[ prof-i-tis ]
noun
- a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- a woman who foretells future events.
- a woman who is aspokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
- the wife or female companion of a prophet.
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Gender Note
See -ess.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prophetess1
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Positioning Robin as an unheeded prophetess and an eventual participant in Ethan’s undoing is a smart way to explore the sexism of the media world at the time.
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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.
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To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.
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Then, together, prophetess and hero started on their journey.
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Nearby the Avenue de la Sibelle conjured a prophetess of Antiquity.
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