Crossword clues for soothsaying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soothsaying \Sooth"say`ing\, n.
A true saying; truth. [Obs.]
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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.
--Acts xvi. 16. -
A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
--Eclus. xxxiv. 5.
Wiktionary
n. A method of foretelling the future.
WordNet
n. the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means [syn: divination, foretelling, fortune telling]
Usage examples of "soothsaying".
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For he so worded the oracle 154 that whether Pyrrhus was conquered by the Romans, or the Romans by Pyrrhus, the soothsaying god would securely await the issue.
No, there are too many presages from entrails, auguries, soothsayings, whereby they boastingly proclaimed themselves prescient of future events and controllers of the fortune of war,-all which prove them to have been present.