diviner

[ dih-vahy-ner ]

noun

1. a person who divines; soothsayer; prophet.
2. a person skilled in using a divining rod.

Word History and Origins

Origin of diviner¹

1300–50; divine + -er ¹; replacing Middle English divinour < Anglo-French < Late Latin dīvīnātor soothsayer, equivalent to Latin dīvīnā ( re ) to divine + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

There is a diviner impulse than either at the doing of any actions that are much worth doing.

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The superior man (the reasonable man) is better, has a diviner soul, and clearer sensations.

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Hydromancy, divination by water, in which the diviner showed the figure of an absent person.

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Everything beautiful turned his face to the more beautiful, more precious, diviner Barbara.

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And as the divine nature is roused, the diviner nature, the immediate God, enters to possess it.

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