diviner
Americannoun
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a person who divines; soothsayer; prophet.
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a person skilled in using a divining rod.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of diviner
1300–50; divine + -er 1; replacing Middle English divinour < Anglo-French < Late Latin dīvīnātor soothsayer, equivalent to Latin dīvīnā ( re ) to divine + -tor -tor
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In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Slate’s judicial diviner Mark Joseph Stern joins to talk about a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on abortion that really took both text and history and human rights seriously.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2024
Lacking recourse to the United Nations, the Moabites turned to a diviner named Balaam to curse the Israelis.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020
The water diviner will soon be positioned directly over the subway.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2012
By the time Cass, a diviner who’s had disturbing visions before, returns with a policeman a second time, she has started to doubt what she saw.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2011
Commune with the spirits, the diviner had said.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
But from a TV or filmgoer's point of view, Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil are fascinating diviners of human weakness and strategists on how best to exploit them.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
Born with snow white hair and deep brown skin in the imaginary country of Orïsha, young diviners morph into mighty, magic-wielding maji, or magicians, at 13.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
In ancient China, hermits were shamans, herbalists and diviners.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2017
These diviners serve as business consultants and therapists, though loudspeakers near Lama Temple blare weekend warnings about fraud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2017
Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader’s right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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