vaticination

Example Sentences

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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

"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

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)

"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 Harland, Henry

If not, where was there room for marvel at Simeon's vaticination?

From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel