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sibyl

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1. sibyl - Noun

2. Sibyl - Proper noun

Meaning

A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Religion is a wizard, a sibyl. She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life. Felix Adler

For I myself saw the Sibyl indeed at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys used to say to her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" Petronius

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. Oscar Wilde

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. Edmund Burke

The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell. Virginia Woolf

You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. Oscar Wilde

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