different between prescience vs augury

English

Alternative forms

• præscience (archaic)

Etymology

From French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s?.?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p????ns/

Noun

prescience (usually uncountable, plural presciences)

1. Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency

     God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents

Translations

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