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Prognostication

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A statement about or prior knowledge of the future. countable, uncountable

    "She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue."

  2. 2
    knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) wordnet
  3. 3
    a statement made about the future wordnet
  4. 4
    a sign of something about to happen wordnet

Etymology

From Old French pronosticacion, from Medieval Latin prognosticatio.

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