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Clairvoyance   /klɛrvˈɔɪəns/   Listen
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Clairvoyance  n.  A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discerning objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.






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"Clairvoyance" Quotes from Famous Books



... who, during her trances, regularly announced at what hour of the following day she would relapse into this condition, had predicted that she would awake from her magnetic slumber at eight o'clock in the morning, and would then be in a state of clairvoyance. This hour had not yet arrived; the clock which stood in her room on the bureau under the looking-glass indicated that about ten minutes were still wanting to the stated time. A profound silence reigned in the room of the young patient. The physician ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach

... Dreams, Mesmerism, Psychometry, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Inspiration, Trance, and Physical Mediumship; Prayer, Mind, and Magnetic Healing; and all ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 - Volume 1, Number 1 • Various

... canoe, going down the river to their village. But as they came near it the girl grew sad, for she had thrown out her soul to their home, though they knew it not, by meelahbi-give. [Footnote: Passamaquoddy: Clairvoyance, or state of vision.] And suddenly she said, as they came to a point of land, "Here I must leave. I can go no further. Say nothing of me to your parents, for your father would have but little love for me." And the young men sought to persuade her, but she only ...
— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland

... how useless comparative scores may be. If another season like 1921 strikes American tennis, the ranking will need either clairvoyance or ...
— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D

... concerning clairvoyance, telepathy, hypnotism, and their allied subjects began to assume new significance and a weightier importance. He was annoyed to find himself profoundly concerned as to whether the power of "suggestion" was anything like as coercive as many ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland


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