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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His gifts of dialectical vaticination made them look upon him as the lively oracle of the special Providence which he himself was accustomed to say presided over the British Empire.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
Had she trusted rather to woman's vaticination, matters had been better for her.
From The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough
"She came from that low doorway, beyond there at the right, where the two cypresses are; and she came at the very climax of my vaticination," said her ladyship.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
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
Had any one indulged in such a vaticination, however, his prediction would have been most ignominiously falsified by subsequent events.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent
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