Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 31: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Stephen Goranson]

Quoting Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>:

> self-fulfilling (OED 1949)
>
> 1948 Robert K. Merton in _Antioch Review_ Summer 193  (heading) The
> self-fulfilling prophecy.


...may be in an unlooked-for way a progress towards reunions, a prophecy, a
self- fulfilling prophecy, of a Catholic Church reviving.

Pages 223-4 in The seven gifts. Addressed to the Diocese Canterbury in His
Primary Visitation. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. By Edward White (Benson)
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Stephen Goranson
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