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prophetess

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Definition of prophetess

as in sibyl

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Recent Examples of prophetess Brown, a debut novelist and medieval scholar, renders Elizabeth’s rise from impoverished servant to popular prophetess in admirably human and complex terms. — Elizabeth Toohey, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2026 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. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024 The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024 Hecuba, the queen, goes to the wily Odysseus; her daughter-in-law Andromache, Hector’s widow, to Achilles’ son, Pyrrhus; and her daughter Cassandra, a prophetess doomed never to be believed, to the victorious general Agamemnon. — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021 The [prophetess Deborah], for example, accompanies an army into battle. — Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2021

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Noun

The artist’s ceiling for the Sistine Chapel had included 20 nude males as supporting figures above the prophets and sibyls.

— Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.

— Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024

Definition of sibyl

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This overarching label encompassed Anabaptists, Baptists, Brownists, Levelers, Antinomians, Presbyterians, Ranters and many of the highly individual prophets and seers of 1640s Britain.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026

Definition of seer

Noun

Ancient Chinese scholars made records of solar eclipses, and diviners made prophecies during these auspicious events.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2026
While often presented as the act of using beauty practices to manifest your desires, diviner and spiritual wellness teacher Tatianna Tarot would caution against getting too attached to semantics.

— Essence, Essence, 23 Nov. 2025

Definition of diviner

Noun

But Warren Jeffs remains acknowledged as the current living prophet by his followers, and reports suggest that Jeffs continues to exert significant influence over his community even after his incarceration.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
The long history of psychedelics and religion is filled with scientists, anthropologists, mystics, shamans, outlaws, and prophets, but these two men are, more than any others, the patron saints of our current psychedelic revival.

— Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of prophet

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For example, the Ram Shalaka oracle is based on the Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas, a 16th-century retelling of the ancient Indian epic Ramayana.

— Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
Part of the superhero origin story is that Chaerephon, a friend of Socrates’, goes to the oracle and asks who the wisest man is, and the oracle says Socrates.

— Agnes Callard, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of oracle

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The first teaser for the film lays out that mission, with Gail speaking with a fortune teller who knows way too well the specifics of Gail’s situation and sets her on her path forward.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
Toombs is best known today as the face of fortune teller Madame Leota inside the crystal ball in the Haunted Mansion’s seance circle at Disneyland.

— Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026

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