vaticination

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He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

"A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America."

From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various

Had any one indulged in such a vaticination, however, his prediction would have been most ignominiously falsified by subsequent events.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

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 Paget, Walter

If not, where was there room for marvel at Simeon's vaticination?

From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel