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prophetship en · NOUN

Etymology

From prophet + -ship.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property or state of being a prophet.
   • To deny Mahomet's prophetship would excite a violent antagonism, and I content myself with making them acknowledge that God is greater than all Prophets or Apostles, and that there is but one God for all the human race. 1854 (date written), Bayard Taylor, “Life in a Syrian Quarantine”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 24:
   • As regards the Magians they believed in the prophetship of Zaradasht... 1918, M. Inostranzev, Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I:

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