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Soothsaying vs Vaticination - What's the difference?

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Soothsaying is a related term of vaticination.


As nouns the difference between soothsaying and vaticination

is that soothsaying is a method of foretelling the future while vaticination is prediction, prophecy.

soothsaying

English

Noun

(soothsayings)
  • A method of foretelling the future.
  • vaticination

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Prediction, prophecy.
  • * 1759 , , The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 28)
  • Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye.
  • * 1836 ,
  • *:Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
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