Foretell vs Divination - What's the difference?
foretell | divination |
To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
* Alexander Pope
* C. Middleton
(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 a verb foretell
is to predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.As a noun divination is
(uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.foretell
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Verb
- Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold .
- Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.