Divination vs Vaticination - What's the difference?
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(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.
Prediction, prophecy.
* 1759 , , The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 28)
* 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.
Divination is a related term of vaticination.
As nouns the difference between divination and vaticination
is that divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while vaticination is prediction, prophecy.divination
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(en noun)- Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye.