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Definition of Clairvoyances
1. clairvoyance [n] - See also: clairvoyance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clairvoyances
Literary usage of Clairvoyances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memories and Studies by William James (1911)
"... to prompt our curiosities and hopes and suspicions all in equal measure, so
that, although ghosts and clairvoyances, and raps and messages from spirits, ..."
2. Judging Human Character by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1922)
"In time these indiscriminate clairvoyances also gave way, and the field of
significant signs was limited more generally to the structural characteristics of ..."
3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1874)
"... of Elizabeth Barton, the nun of Kent, became the scene of miraculous trances
and clairvoyances in the interest of the threatened orders and religion. ..."
4. Yosemite Trails: Camp and Pack-train in the Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1911)
"One whistles, sotto voce, smokes with a deeper peace, notes a million things,
infinitely small and precious, and receives freely those little clairvoyances ..."
5. The New Light on Immortality: Or, The Significance of Psychic Research by John Herman Randall (1921)
"... so that, although ghosts and clairvoyances, and raps and messages from spirits
are always seeming to exist and can never be fully explained away, ..."
6. Ossian and the Clyde: Fingal in Ireland. Oscar in Iceland, Or Ossian by Peter Hately Waddell (1875)
"In another department, what are all our doctrinal theories of an invisible world,
our spirit-rappings and clairvoyances ? Our discussions upon " spirits in ..."
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