Sooth"say`ing, n.
1.
A true saying; truth.
[Obs.]
2.
The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
Acts xvi. 16.
3.
A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
Eclus. xxxiv. 5.
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