vaticination
Example Sentences
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Rose wondered whether this were a general or a particular vaticination.
From The Chaperon by Henry James
Anything like a categorical answer to these questions would have to be a work of vaticination or of effrontery,—possibly as much to the point the one as the other.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
No order, no system, no method anywhere in mundane things, and therefore no power of vision and vaticination.
From The Jericho Road by W. Bion Adkins
If it stooped in submission to any such expectation as that expressed, and dedicated itself to the crude vaticination of the transitory emotions and opinions, it had better turn journalism at once.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
And yet, having had no experience of the etiquette due to prophets when the orgy of vaticination is upon them, he was not quite comfortable on the question of being scathed.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget