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

Had she trusted rather to woman's vaticination, matters had been better for her.

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson

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

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

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

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