"Prophesize" Not in the Dictionaries

[Fred Shapiro]

Despite having over 11,000 Google hits and being used  prominently in Bob
Dylan's landmark 1964 song "The Times They Are A-Changin'," the word
_prophesize_ is still not in OED or Merriam-Webster.

Newspaperarchive has occurrences back to 1913.  ProQuest Historical
Newspapers is down right now, so I can't check that.

Fred Shapiro


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