vaticination

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Almost every notable man in Piedmont contributed his quota of melancholy vaticination, in which the note, "I told you so!" was already audible.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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

Everybody knows the description given by Virgil of the Cumaean sybil at the moment of vaticination: "The god, the god, she cried," etc.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

I believe, however, that Lord Bacon may claim the merit of having been the first to notice this vaticination.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

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