vaticination

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"You rate my powers of vaticination too high," he said slowly, "and—you are groping after an ideal."

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

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

In one section of society I hear voices of melancholy vaticination.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

A great poet seems to require his birth in an age when there are about him great self-revelations of man, for his vaticination.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 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