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Divination vs Sortilege - What's the difference?

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Divination is a related term of sortilege.


As nouns the difference between divination and sortilege

is that divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while sortilege is magic spell, sorcery, witchcraft.

divination

English

(wikipedia divination)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
  • The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
  • (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * star divination

    Related terms

    * divine * predivination

    See also

    * (Methods of divination) ----

    sortilege

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
  • * 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
  • *:We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 115:
  • *:Orthodox believers were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
  • * 2001 , (JT Leroy), Sarah :
  • *:‘Too much evil sortilege ,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.

    • Derived terms

    * sortilegious