vaticination
Americannoun
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an act of prophesying.
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a prophesy.
Etymology
Origin of vaticination
First recorded in 1595–1605, vaticination is from the Latin word vāticinātiōn- (stem of vaticinātiō ). See vaticinate, -ion
Example Sentences
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And yet, having had no experience of the etiquette due to prophets when the orgy of vaticination is upon them, he was not quite comfortable on the question of being scathed.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter
A great poet seems to require his birth in an age when there are about him great self-revelations of man, for his vaticination.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?
From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by Clouston, William Alexander
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