Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female clairvoyant.

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Examples

  • Pharaoh of that time met a famous magician, half charlatan and half seer who, because she was far-seeing, 'clairvoyante' we should call it, instructed her in his art so well that soon she became his master and forced him to obey her.

    Ayesha, the Return of She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • She placed an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph as a clairvoyante.

    Cora Minnett Steve 2009

  • Thompson reluctantly agreed, and Hyslop introduced him as Mr. Smith to a clairvoyante, a Mrs. Rathbun.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Robert Kirk, a seventeenth-century “second sight” researcher, author of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, wrote of a clairvoyante who “took very little or no food for several years past, that she tarried in the fields overnight, saw and conversed with a people that she knew not, and…found herself transported to another place before day.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Thompson reluctantly agreed, and Hyslop introduced him as Mr. Smith to a clairvoyante, a Mrs. Rathbun.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Thompson reluctantly agreed, and Hyslop introduced him as Mr. Smith to a clairvoyante, a Mrs. Rathbun.

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Robert Kirk, a seventeenth-century “second sight” researcher, author of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, wrote of a clairvoyante who “took very little or no food for several years past, that she tarried in the fields overnight, saw and conversed with a people that she knew not, and…found herself transported to another place before day.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • Robert Kirk, a seventeenth-century “second sight” researcher, author of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, wrote of a clairvoyante who “took very little or no food for several years past, that she tarried in the fields overnight, saw and conversed with a people that she knew not, and…found herself transported to another place before day.”

    Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

  • The cold damp seemed to make even the snakes torpid: for the first time in my life I trod upon one — a clairvoyante having already warned me against serpents and scorpions.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any clairvoyante.

    Villette 2003

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