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[ vuh-tis-uh-ney-shuhn, vat-uh-suh- ] / vəˌtɪs əˈneɪ ʃən, ˌvæt ə sə- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR vaticination ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan act of prophesying. a prophesy. Origin of vaticinationFirst recorded in 1595–1605, vaticination is from the Latin word vāticinātiōn- (stem of vaticinātiō). See vaticinate, -ion Words nearby vaticinationVatican II, Vaticanism, vaticide, vaticinal, vaticinate, vaticination, vatman, Vatnajökull National Park, Vattel, Vättern, vatting Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for vaticinationIts speculation can no longer be stigmatized as vaticination in vacuo, nor its results as illusory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8|Various He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination. Charles Darwin|Grant Allen Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination. Trevethlan: Volume 1|William Davy Watson It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Book of Wise Sayings|W. A. Clouston
This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa|David Livingstone
Words related to vaticinationprognosis, revelation, augury, forecast, divination, cast, prognostication, vision, oracle, apocalypse, presage, soothsaying, prevision, foretelling, second sight |