vaticination

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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

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 Lee, Day Kellogg

He lingered for a while near that edge of the platform where the two aged ladies were seated, as though some faint vaticination of the advent of half-a-crown still haunted his bewildered faculties.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

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