diviner
noun
di·vin·er
də-ˈvī-nər 
1
: a person who practices divination : soothsayer
2
: a person who divines the location of water or minerals
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Diviners foretold of the event.
somehow the diviner failed to foresee her own misfortunes with the law
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.
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Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
—Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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
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Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
—Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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
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“Diviner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diviner. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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