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
Jewish commentators naturally suggested events and objects short of evangelical as the fulfilment of the prophetical announcements, and, when it was possible, an ethical sense instead of a prophetical.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
He mingled in his strange character fanaticism and courage—eccentricity and a prophetical insight into future events—a warped conscience and a sublime martyr heroism.
From The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It by Leech, Rev. Samuel Vanderlip
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
