Definitions for divination

divination div·i·na·tion

Spelling: [div-uh-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌdɪv əˈneɪ ʃən/

Divination is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in divination (adiiinnotv).

Definitions for divination

noun

  1. the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
  2. augury; prophecy:
  3. perception by intuition; instinctive foresight.

Origin of divination

1350-1400; Middle English divinacioun (Anglo-French) Latin dīvīnātiōn- (stem of dīvīnātiō), equivalent to dīvīnāt(us), past participle of dīvīnāre to soothsay (dīvīn- d

Examples for divination

It is to be hoped that nothing worse than divination is intended.

The first of these lines is magic, the second is divination.

Second sight is the term that is used for the divination of the highlanders.

Knight, Andrew:—On the divination of flowers, 108;theory of cross-fertilization, 115.

Nobody ever heard of even numbers in any case of divination.

It could not have been a divination, therefore it must have been some obscure phenomenon of memory.

I had a positive aversion to all pretenders to "divination."

He is believed to be very clever in divination, and to be the patron of waters.

Etruria furnished the people of Romulus with the science of divination.

I particularly like how such a complex reading mirrors the divination referenced in the work.

Word Value for divination
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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