All 6 Uses of
prophecy
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- At the moment of execution—with the halter about his neck, and while Colonel Pyncheon sat on horseback, grimly gazing at the scene Maule had addressed him from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy, of which history, as well as fireside tradition, has preserved the very words.†
Chpt 1 *prophecy = prediction of the future
- And not merely so, but was it hereditary in him, and transmitted down, as a precious heirloom, from that bearded ancestor, in whose picture both the expression and, to a singular degree, the features of the modern Judge were shown as by a kind of prophecy?†
Chpt 8
- He had that sense, or inward prophecy,—which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,—that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are the harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.†
Chpt 12
- The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.†
Chpt 17
- Old Maule's prophecy was probably founded on a knowledge of this physical predisposition in the Pyncheon race.†
Chpt 20
- The Pyncheon Elm, moreover, with what foliage the September gale had spared to it, whispered unintelligible prophecies.†
Chpt 21prophecies = predictions of the future
Definition:
a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)