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Unprophetic

adjective
1.
Not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly.





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"Unprophetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... claims and pretended to dig gold, panning out half a dollar a day at first; two or three times as much, later, and by and by whole fortunes, as our imaginations became inured to the work. Stupid and unprophetic lads! We were doing this in play and never suspecting. Why, that cave hollow and all the adjacent hills were made of gold! But we did not know it. We took it for dirt. We left its rich secret in its own peaceful possession and ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... sons of yore, Britain failed; and nevermore, Careless of our growing kin, Shall we sin our fathers' sin; Men that in a narrower day - Unprophetic rulers they- Drove from out the eagle's nest That young eagle of the West To forage for herself alone; Britons, hold your own! "Sharers of our glorious past, Brothers, must we part at last? Shall we not thro' good and ill Cleave to one ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy


Words linked to "Unprophetic" :   unpredictive, prophetic, nonprognosticative


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