| Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world. |
| Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong. |
| The singularity that sets up a contrast between this deliberate vaticination and photographic reality is endlessly fascinating to the artist and creates a certain equivocal ambiguity. |
| The best legal defense is here a strong offense, employing vaticination as rhetorical power. |
| Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination. |
| It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. |
