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prophetess

[prof-i-tis]

proph·et·ess

[prof-i-tis]
noun
1.
a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
2.
a woman who foretells future events.
3.
a woman who is aspokesperson of some doctrine, cause, or movement.
4.
the wife or female companion of a prophet.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English prophetesse < Old French < Late Latin prophētissa. See prophet, -ess


See -ess.

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prophet (ˈprɒfɪt)
 
n
1.  a person who supposedly speaks by divine inspiration, esp one through whom a divinity expresses his willRelated: vatic
2.  a person who predicts the future: a prophet of doom
3.  a spokesman for a movement, doctrine, etc
4.  Christian Science
 a.  a seer in spiritual matters
 b.  the vanishing of material sense to give way to the conscious facts of spiritual truth
 
Related: vatic
 
[C13: from Old French prophète, from Latin prophēta, from Greek prophētēs one who declares the divine will, from pro-² + phanai to speak]
 
'prophetess
 
fem n
 
'prophet-like
 
adj

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