prophetess
Example Sentences
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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
The Pythoness, Apollo’s priestess and prophetess, had found him one morning, a little baby, lying on the temple stairway, and had brought him up as tenderly as a mother.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
