vaticination
Example Sentences
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What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?
From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
Rose wondered whether this were a general or a particular vaticination.
From The Chaperon by Henry James
"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
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 Auguste Sabatier
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
