vaticination

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In one section of society I hear voices of melancholy vaticination.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"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

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

A great poet seems to require his birth in an age when there are about him great self-revelations of man, for his vaticination.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various