vaticination

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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by Clouston, William Alexander

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

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

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

Anything like a categorical answer to these questions would have to be a work of vaticination or of effrontery,—possibly as much to the point the one as the other.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)