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Diviner   Listen
noun
Diviner  n.  
1.
One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. "The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain."
2.
A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.





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"Diviner" Quotes from Famous Books



... back a little with my hero. There were many things to occupy his mind, the summer of the "strikes;" yet through it all, like one strain of heavenly harmony in a clash of discord, he came to know the diviner needs of his being. Another man might have been dismayed at the revelation. Like a flash when the horizon is opened, he saw the light; and he knew, from the depths of the darkness the next moment, what manner of ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... and divination, but are not the most credulous of mankind. The ordinary possessed person is usually consulted as to the disease of an absent patient. The inquirers do not assist the diviner by holding his hand, but are expected to smite the ground violently if the guess made by the diviner is right; gently if it is wrong. A sceptical Zulu, named John, having a shilling to expend on psychical research, ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang
... consciousness is not yet capable of functioning in it amidst the manifold distractions of physical life. It needs to be set free by the temporary suspension of the outer senses in the mesmeric trance before it can use the diviner faculties which are but just beginning to dawn within it. But of course even in the mesmeric trance there are innumerable degrees of lucidity, from the ordinary patient who is blankly unintelligent to the man whose power of sight is fully under the control ...
— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater
... and the sea, sun, wind, clouds and trees colored my dreams at night very sweetly. I frequently dreamed I was walking in orchards or forests, and a deeper, slightly melancholy but potent savor, as of a diviner destiny, was ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... Mankind—histories as important, no doubt, as those of Greece, Italy, and Great Britain. Inasmuch, however, as the sweet Spirit of Antiquity knows them not, where is the poet with wings so strong that he can carry them off into the "ampler ether," the "diviner air" where ...
— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson


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