vaticination

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[vuh-tis-uh-nay-shuhn, vat-uh-suh-] / vəˌtɪs əˈneɪ ʃən, ˌvæt ə sə- /

noun

1. an act of prophesying.

2. a prophesy.

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Etymology

Origin of vaticination

First recorded in 1595–1605, vaticination is from the Latin word vāticinātiōn- (stem of vaticinātiō ). See vaticinate, -ion

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Example Sentences

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vaticination

Anything like a categorical answer to these questions would have to be a work of vaticination or of effrontery,—possibly as much to the point the one as the other.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen

For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

He lingered for a while near that edge of the platform where the two aged ladies were seated, as though some faint vaticination of the advent of half-a-crown still haunted his bewildered faculties.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

"You rate my powers of vaticination too high," he said slowly, "and—you are groping after an ideal."

From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford

In the Heliand the attributes are less varied, 69the vaticination is wanting, and Wurð seems almost the same as Death.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

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