Prescience vs Augury - What's the difference?
prescience | augury | Related terms |
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
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Prescience is a related term of augury.
As nouns the difference between prescience and augury
is that prescience is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge while augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.prescience
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* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. (Jonathan Edwards)
augury
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(auguries)- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
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