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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means;
[syn: divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Soothsaying \Sooth"say`ing\, n. 1. A true saying; truth. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. [1913 Webster] A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. --Acts xvi. 16. [1913 Webster] 3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. [1913 Webster] Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. --Eclus. xxxiv. 5. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

soothsaying n 1: the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means [syn: divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling]