diviner

noun

di·vin·er də-ˈvī-nər

Synonyms of diviner next

: a person who practices divination : soothsayer

: a person who divines the location of water or minerals

Examples of diviner in a Sentence

Diviners foretold of the event. somehow the diviner failed to foresee her own misfortunes with the law

Recent Examples on the Web There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles. —

James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024 Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial. —

Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 The diviner confirms the man’s fears: two women have bewitched his wife. —

Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 But these abstractions, the aggregate flow of goods and services (in the latter case, specialists such as doctors and diviners), had to be made concrete in the concepts that these people understood. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2010 See all Example Sentences for diviner

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