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Soothsaying

noun

The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means. Synonyms: divination, foretelling, fortune telling.

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"Soothsaying" Quotes from Famous Books

... to me, and set your heart at rest On that you speak of, while I make you learn No mortal thing is touched by soothsaying. Of that I'll give thee warrant brief and plain. Word came to Laius once, I will not say From Phoebus' self, but from his ministers, The King should be destroyed by his own son, If son were born to him from me. What followed? Laius was slain, by robbers from abroad, Saith Rumour, ...

— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

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