vaticination
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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
"A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America."
From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various
In the Heliand the attributes are less varied, 69the vaticination is wanting, and Wurð seems almost the same as Death.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
The white people all believed more or less in portents, warnings and dreams; and trusting a little to their vaticination now, they could not yield the lingering hope that he was still alive.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
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 Henry James
