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
As to their prophetical value, we are hardly in a position to judge; we feel with George Eliot that of all the mistakes we commit, prophecy is probably the most gratuitous.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
The prophetical books will aid the student, and the Psalms will irradiate certain dark periods.
From Studies in Old Testament History by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
These strollers, circulatores or agyrtæ in classical language, told fortunes, and distributed prophetical tickets to the ignorant people who consulted them.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
