prophetess

Example Sentences

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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

This immortal masterpiece, the “Jayaparajaya,” is the work of a prophetess named Pampa Kampana who died in 1565 at the age of 247.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

It venerates Deborah the prophetess judge and the entrepreneurial Lydia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2018

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