soothsaying
- noun
- /ˈsuːθseɪɪŋ/
- Archaic
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adivinación
- She dismissed his soothsaying as mere superstition and preferred logical planning.
Examples
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Soothsaying does not become you, Haman.
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For visions of a clean energy future, brothers and sisters, look not to the soothsaying of thine experts.
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Though nostalgia can be wrong, it's still a better bet than the likely faultiness of cultural or even economic soothsaying.
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Around 1600 in England, it was reported that "among the common people, he is not adjudged any scholar at all, unless he can tell men's horoscopes, cast out devils, or hath some skills in soothsaying" (Thomas 1971, p. 227).
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Many people visit fortune tellers for soothsaying to learn about their future.
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Soothsaying has been practiced for centuries in various cultures around the world.
Synonyms
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The act of trying to find the future using magic or signs
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A way of finding out what will happen to someone in the future using mysterious methods
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Talking to dead people using magic to learn the future or change what will happen
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To say what will happen in the future
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To tell someone about their future, often for money, for example using cards or reading palms
A prediction of future events said to come from a god
To try to tell the future by reading where the sun, moon, and planets are
Predicting the future by looking into a crystal ball or guessing about the future without real proof
To tell the future or choose by chance using small objects like stones
How Prophetic
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- Literature
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Soothsaying starts with sooth, an old word meaning 'truth', plus saying, 'speaking'. So a soothsayer was a person who claimed to 'speak the truth' about the future, and that is why soothsaying means the practice of foretelling events today.