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Definition of Fortunetelling
1. Noun. The practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment).
Definition of Fortunetelling
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of fortune-telling) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortunetelling
Literary usage of Fortunetelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"Following on and arising out of the notion of fortunetelling, augury, divination,
and omens are the actions necessary to ensure good fortune or luck; ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1859)
"... pretending to ye art of Divination & fortunetelling &c to make enquiry into
yl matter, & to take such resolutions as may be thot proper on yl occasion. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1851)
"After dancing, fortunetelling, and begging in the towns.it was the gipsies'custom
to retire into the forests, and there pitch their tents for a few days, ..."
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