vaticination

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noun knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

From vaticinate + -ion.

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias? — The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
None of your doubtful oracles there; none of your double-meaning vaticinations, like that which took poor Pyrrhus in[1216]." — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

prophecy, prognostication

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