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prophetess

pro fuh tuhs

  • n  a woman prophet

  • Thus for Jesus, substitute Lincoln; for Deborah (prophetess and campaigner against social wrongs), substitute Jane Addams; for Isaiah, Tom Paine or Thomas Jefferson; for the .
  • Other operas came from a standardized repertoire, all save Honegger's Judith which retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her .
  • As conductor John Eliot Gardiner whips the orchestra to a boil, the prophetess Cassandra (Anna Caterina Antonacci) soars into an aria of despair and defiance, urging the other .
News & Articles

  • Vallas down but not out -- yet
    Former Bridgeport Supt. of Schools Paul Vallas is hugged by Prophetess Gerry Claytor as he arrives at a rally supporting him at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at 790 Union Avenue in Bridgeport, Conn. on Monday, July 1, 2013. The church is pastored by Bridgeport Board of Education Chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr.
    July 8, 2013 - Connecticut Post
Quotes

  • Claire Bloom in Times Online
    Possibly his mother, possibly not,Bloom says when I am allowed back downstairs. "Someone who appears and basically gives him the bad news. A seer, a prophetess. Also she is somehow there as a protectress. But that's more in what I tried to...
  • Basdeo Panday in Trinidad & Tobago Express
    When asked to comment on Prime Minister Patrick Manning's assertion that the PNM will make a clean sweep at the polls, Panday responded, "I think the prophetess misled him again".

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