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vaticination

/vəˌtɪsɪˈneɪʃən/

vaticination noun: prediction, prophecy.

Noun

vaticination (plural vaticinations)

  1. Prediction, prophecy.
    • Yorick ſcarce ever heard this ſad vaticination of his deſtiny read over to him, but with a tear ſtealing from his eye, […]1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC...
    • […]for that honest gentleman, never the most susceptible of extraneous impressions, had just that moment parted from Meg Merrilies, and was too deeply wrapt up in pondering upon her vaticinations, to make any answer to Hazlewood's call.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

vaticination meaning in Tamil

vaticination in Tamil

வருவதுரைத்தல், எதிர்கால நிகழ்ச்சிகளைக் கூறல்

Examples of vaticination in a sentence

  • He has manufactured a very damp squib; he is a serious man in motley; and practical ideas occasionally drop in among his fantastic vaticinations.1858 May 29, The Launceston Examiner, Tasmania, page 6, column 2:
  • […][Nineteen Eighty-Four] breaks all records for gloomy vaticination[…]c. 1949, Edward Shanks, The Sunday Times, London:

Forms of vaticination

pluralvaticinations

Origin of vaticination

From vaticinate + -ion.

Questions about vaticination

What does vaticination mean?
Vaticination means prediction, prophecy.
What is vaticination in Tamil?
Vaticination in Tamil is வருவதுரைத்தல், எதிர்கால நிகழ்ச்சிகளைக் கூறல். See Vaticination meaning in Tamil.
How do you use vaticination in a sentence?
He has manufactured a very damp squib; he is a serious man in motley; and practical ideas occasionally drop in among his fantastic vaticinations.
What part of speech is vaticination?
Vaticination is a noun.
How do you pronounce vaticination?
Vaticination is pronounced /vəˌtɪsɪˈneɪʃən/.
What is the plural of vaticination?
The plural of vaticination is vaticinations.

Words near vaticination in the dictionary

  1. vaticinal
  2. vaticinate
  3. vaticinated
  4. vaticinates
  5. vaticinating
  6. vaticination
  7. vaticinations
  8. vaticinator
  9. vaticinators
  10. vaticinatory
  11. vaticinatrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaticination (page history and authors); vaticination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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