Divining vs Divination - What's the difference?
divining | divination |
The action of the verb to divine in any sense.
* 1857 , Martha Griffith Browne, Autobiography of a Female Slave (page 347)
That or who divines (in any sense of the verb ).
(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.
As nouns the difference between divining and divination
is that divining is the action of the verb to divine in any sense while divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.As a adjective divining
is that or who divines (in any sense of the verb ).As a verb divining
is (divine).divining
English
(en)Noun
- We took a long stroll through the lamp-lit streets, talking of the blessed hopes that struggled in our bosoms; of the faint divinings of the future; told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
