different between augury vs vaticination

English

Etymology

augur +? -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?j?.?i/

Noun

augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)

1. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
2. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
   • 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe

     In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!

3. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:omen

Hyponyms

Related terms

• augur

Translations

English

Etymology

vaticinate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??t?s??ne???n/

Noun

vaticination (plural vaticinations)

1. Prediction, prophecy.

Related terms

• vaticinate
• vaticinatory

Anagrams

• inactivation

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?ticin?ti?. Synchronically analysable as vaticiner +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ti.si.na.sj??/

Noun

vaticination f (plural vaticinations)

1. vaticination

References

• “vaticination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).