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Soothsaying   Listen
noun
Soothsaying  n.  
1.
A true saying; truth. (Obs.)
2.
The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. "A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination... which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying."
3.
A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. "Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain."





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"Soothsaying" Quotes from Famous Books



... With such soothsaying songs of yore did the Parcae chant from divine breast the felicitous fate of Peleus. For of aforetime the heaven-dwellers were wont to visit the chaste homes of heroes and to shew themselves in mortal assembly ere yet their worship was scorned. Often the ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus


Words linked to "Soothsaying" :   dowse, divination, lithomancy, palmistry, prophecy, onomancy, hydromancy, palm reading, chirology, rhabdomancy, geomancy, arithmancy, prognostication, dowsing, pyromancy, vaticination, oneiromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, foretelling


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