diviner

American  

[dih-vahy-ner] / dɪˈvaɪ nər /

noun

• diviners
  plural

1. a person who divines; soothsayer; prophet.

2. a person skilled in using a divining rod.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• diviners
  plural

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

Example Sentences

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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

TULSA, Okla. — The landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is a diviner of places, a city whisperer.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2018

“I have no plan when I go into the studio,” said Garry Nichols, who has a sideline as a water diviner.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2013

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

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

So where were the diviners of reasonable common ground?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

“Because I know what my father knew. And his father before him. It is what diviners know.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool