different between divination vs augury

English

Etymology

From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• predivination

Translations

See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin d?v?n?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner

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