vaticination

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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

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

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

For the rest, you will be tired of hearing that, for vaticination, you, to excess, simplify.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

There was no proportion in his mind; and vaticination and twaddle rolled off his eloquent tongue as chance would have it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various