vaticination

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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

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 Earle, John

Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

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

His gifts of dialectical vaticination made them look upon him as the lively oracle of the special Providence which he himself was accustomed to say presided over the British Empire.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe