vaticination

Example Sentences

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"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 Mitford, Bertram

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

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 Earle, John

Here are the miraculous Three Days; heralding, in thunder, great things to Torrijos and others; filling with babblement and vaticination the mouths and hearts of all democratic men.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

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 James, Henry