vaticination

American  

[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

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

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

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

For the rest, you will be tired of hearing that, for vaticination, you, to excess, simplify.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James

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

"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

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