vaticination

Example Sentences

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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

"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

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

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

Almost every notable man in Piedmont contributed his quota of melancholy vaticination, in which the note, "I told you so!" was already audible.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn