单词 | unprophetically |
释义 | unpropheticallyadv. Not prophetically; without foresight or correct prediction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adverb] > not prophetically unprophetically1704 1704 Bp. G. Burnet Orator Display'd 19 The Author of such scandalous and undutiful Reflections..does perhaps not unprophetically, from consciousness of Demerit, talk of being knock'd on the Head, or driven beyond Sea. 1777 J. Price 5 Lett. Free Merchant Bengal v. 262 I remember a countryman of the Abbe's, who..applied the delenda est Carthago to Great Britain, as dogmatically and unprophetically, as the Abbe himself could do. 1861 T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs II. p. xxvii Elmham warns the king (not unprophetically) of the..uncertain character of human life. 1946 Proc. Royal Mus. Assoc. 72 52 What was unprophetically called The Great War was drawing to a close. 1997 Daily Tel. 9 June 20/5 The title of Defender of the Faith, so unprophetically conferred on Henry VIII by the pope. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1704 |
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