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Definition of Clairvoyants
1. clairvoyant [n] - See also: clairvoyant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clairvoyants
Literary usage of Clairvoyants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Women of New York; Or, The Under-world of the Great City: Illustrating by George Ellington (1869)
"FEMALE clairvoyants. number of female clairvoyants in New York ... The clairvoyants,
on the contrary, are higher up in the scale of female frauds. ..."
2. The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"The clairvoyants do not hesitate to confess to their friends, in a confidential way,
... Many of these fortune-tellers and clairvoyants are simply ..."
3. New York Dissector: Quarterly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, Magnetism (1848)
"Besides the common clairvoyants who literally see things as they appear to them
... Some few clairvoyants recoller! in their natural state, very distinctly, ..."
4. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"Its Offer to clairvoyants. — Failure to earn Reward. — Harmonious Conditions
required by Spiritists. — The Seybert Commission. — Trance-Speaking Mediums. ..."
5. Vital magnetic cure: An Exposition of Vital Magnetism and Its Application to by Magnetic physician (1890)
"Some clairvoyants are apparently born with the faculty, or at least its exercise
commences at such an early period in life, as to lead to the inference that ..."
6. Life and Society in America by Samuel Phillips Day (1880)
"ASTROLOGERS AND clairvoyants. "I THINK you will find it true," writes Oliver
Wendell Holmes, " that before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, ..."
7. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas F. Byrnes (1892)
"... —How Cigar Stumps are Made Over into Fragrant Havanas — Free-Lunchers and
Floaters — Fortune- Tellers and clairvoyants — Transparent Stratagems. ..."
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