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Meanings of oracular utterance in English

Russian
пророчество

Message of guidance or prediction derived from a supernatural source.

        пророчество
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        Examples for "prophecy"
        Examples for "prophecy"
        1
        There's a case to be made for prophecy; don't get me wrong.
        Death masks
        2
        The words spoken in jest were in the nature of a prophecy.
        Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
        3
        It describes a movement's goals in words connoting prophecy and religious truth.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The sentence has been reversed; the prophecy of Skirving has become history.
        Historical Papers / Part 3 from Volume VI of The Works of John G...
        5
        The theological ideas of the prophecy are different from those of Isaiah.
        Introduction to the Old Testament
        Usage of oracular utterance in English
        1
        A marvellous piece of music is consorted with this oracular utterance.
        A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
        2
        She strolled away after this oracular utterance, and Miss Clarkson went to breakfast.
        Many Kingdoms
        3
        But Red Tabs' oracular utterance had made everything clear to me.
        The Man with the Clubfoot
        4
        Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men.
        The Ten Books on Architecture
        5
        Mr. Seward sometimes called attention to his position by an oracular utterance which he left the people to interpret.
        My Memories of Eighty Years
        6
        This oracular utterance was confidentially delivered from the leathern chair at the writing-table, in an inner recess of Rachel's sumptuous sitting-room.
        The Shadow of the Rope
        7
        Hale does frown so when he makes one of his oracular utterances.
        Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
        8
        They didn't know Earth language and would take his words for oracular utterances.
        Divinity
        9
        Am I to take these as oracular utterances, Mr. Ulfheim?
        When We Dead Awaken
        10
        Specimens of the oracular utterances of Fijian gods.
        The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 ...
        11
        They also referred to the Premier's oracular utterances.
        History of the World War, Vol. 3
        12
        Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.
        Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
        13
        He wrote, as well as painted, artistic treatises, which were received as oracular utterances, and entirely deferred to in the schools of his day.
        The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and L...
        14
        "Nature," as Leonardo says, "is the mistress of the higher intelligences"; and Goethe, in his most oracular utterances, recalls us to the same truth.
        One Hundred Best Books / With Commentary and an Essay on Books a...
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