Diviner
[də'vaɪnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers.
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Definition
(n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
(n.) A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Conjurer, magician, sorcerer, seer.[2]. Conjecturer.
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Examples
- Of each kind, without doubt, pursued the diviner. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And will he sell his own fairer and diviner part without any compunction to the most godless and foul? Plato. The Republic.
- But her voice is much diviner than anything you have seen of her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader's right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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