Clairvoyante
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female clairvoyant.
"Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, / Had a bad cold, nevertheless / Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, / With a wicked pack of cards."
- 1 feminine of clairvoyant feminine, form-of, rare
"In her sleep-waking state, she could distinguish the magnetic passes that I had made over a glass of water, they appearing darker than the water itself; and when she was very clairvoyante, she could by this means tell me how many passes I had made, and did so always correctly. […] 4th, The sleep-waking state, when she was clairvoyante, and prescribed. […] In the perfect sleep-waking state, the spirit had the supremacy; and, when she was perfectly clairvoyante, she said her thoughts proceeded wholly from the spirit, and the epigastric region."
Example
More examples"Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, / Had a bad cold, nevertheless / Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, / With a wicked pack of cards."
Etymology
From French clairvoyante.
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