vaticination

American  

[vuh-tis-uh-ney-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

Example Sentences

In one section of society I hear voices of melancholy vaticination.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

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 Veblen, Thorstein

He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

"A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America."

From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various

Had she trusted rather to woman's vaticination, matters had been better for her.

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson