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hyprophecy

Failure to practice what one preaches, as in a member of clergy surreptitiously engaging in behaviors that he or she has condemned from the pulpit. Particularly appropriate when said activities are specifically prohibited by the religion being promoted.
Reverend Haaggard's hyprophecy became evident when he was found in bed with a male escort only hours after preaching against the evils of homosexuality.
by Jack Noxious April 25, 2008
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hyprophecy

Failure to practice what one preaches, as in a member of clergy surreptitiously engaging in behaviors that he or she has condemned from the pulpit. Particularly appropriate when said activities are specifically prohibited by the religion being promoted.
Reverend Haaggard's hyprophecy became evident when he was found in bed with a male escort only hours after preaching against the evils of homosexuality.
by Jack Noxious April 20, 2008
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Hypothecy

A precisely defined prediction (which is not based on anything scientific) of the future. Somewhere between a Hypothesis (a scientific term/definition) and a prophecy (a story-telling device/plot/reason/rationale).
The whOracle of Delphi: "Hate to break it do you, but you will mate with you own mother, and personally shed the blood of your own father"
Oedipus' Hypothecy: "I will sodomize my mother and I will bludgeon my father's left temple with the jawbone of my personal jackass"
by da Hoe June 5, 2013
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hyprophesize

To act as if one is making a prophecy, but the prophecy is derived from a fact-based hypothesis.
After Psychic Rowanda saw the satellite image of the 3 gorges dam appearing stressed and irregular, she hyprophesized on her YouTube channel that the Damn would break.
by spiroc0724 September 18, 2021
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