divinatory

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The divinatory meaning of the card is “power, energy, action, courage, and magnanimity,” according to the little white book that accompanies the deck.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

With all this anxiety swirling around us, is it any wonder that tarot readers, astrologers and other divinatory practitioners say they’ve never been busier?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2021

Through this lens, divinatory practices encourage believers to pay attention to the patterns in their lives and the cycles of nature and to move through time with intention.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2021

With social media, she said, divinatory practices like astrology, crystals and tarot have been able to take up space in a public conversation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2019

Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos