What does predictress mean?
Predictress means A female predictor..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A female predictor..
προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet.
“Call me Eva,” said the woman, “the predictress of fate. Lady, I have but little to say now; but will you meet me to-morrow at midnight, under the large porch, in the Abbey church-yard, opposite to St. Margaret’s church; but remember, lady, you are to come alone, bring not your rival with you; I will tell you that which it is well you should know:—will you be there?”
Who did not hear the Hertfordshire predictress, / E’en in the council-room, assure our men / These measures were approved of from above, / And ratified by heavenly sanction?
But it cannot be dissembled (since he was unwilling to leave anything in this direction untried) that when a youth he was led by his inquisitiveness to the study of astrology, which is said to be the predictress of future events; […]
“I tell you, there is nothing but a blank!” repeated the woman whom the predictress had said, was christened “Marie.”
The “Annual Register” for 1809 contains an extract from a remarkable letter, dated Bath, April 2nd, in which the writer describes the effects of an extraordinary panic arising from a supposed prophecy of the end of the world. The account is headed “Bath Credulity,” and the writer states:—“A report was circulated that a certain infallible prophet, or prophetess, had predicted that an earthquake would be severely felt in Bath on Good Friday, and that Mount Beacon and Beechen Cliff, two immense hills situate at the north and south extremities of the town, should meet, and, of course, destroy and swallow up houses, inhabitants, pigs, and poultry. Some affirmed that Joanna Southcott was the predictor, others that it was a prophet now living at Midford, near this city, who was with Noah in the Ark, and has been travelling over various parts of the world ever since; but the greater part affixed the name of a female fortune-teller residing at Bath. Though they could not fix on any particular prophet, yet all agreed there had been such a predictress, and thousands implicitly believed the event would take place.[…],” etc.
The All Over Arkansas Man marks a prediction and calls for the next predictor. If a predictress will do as well, I will proceed to predict that within 10 years from this date there will not be a fly in the state of Arkansas.
ON THE STAGE / IN PERSON / NADA / Predictress of Futures
Use predictress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Predictress means A female predictor..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.