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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



... also an other sort called Genguis, that make profession to shewe by soothsaying where stollen things are, and who were the theeues. These dwell in the toppe of an high mountaine, blacke in the face: for the continuall heate of the sunne, for the cold windes, and raines they doe continually endure. They marry but in their owne tribe and line: the report goeth that ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt
... the soothsaying Delaware appeared with a gloomy countenance. His mind was full of dismal presentiments, whether from mysterious dreams, or the intimations of the medicine wolf, does not appear. "Danger," he said, "was lurking in their path, and there would be some fighting before sunset." ...
— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving


Words linked to "Soothsaying" :   palm reading, onomancy, prognostication, rhabdomancy, dowse, foretelling, hydromancy, arithmancy, geomancy, pyromancy, oneiromancy, dowsing, prophecy, fortune telling, divination, vaticination


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