vaticination

Example Sentences

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

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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

The white people all believed more or less in portents, warnings and dreams; and trusting a little to their vaticination now, they could not yield the lingering hope that he was still alive.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg

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

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 Dent, John Charles