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clairvoyant

/klair-voi-uhnt/US // klɛərˈvɔɪ ənt //UK // (klɛəˈvɔɪənt) //

通灵的人,通灵人,通灵的,预言家

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision: Not being clairvoyant, I did not foresee the danger of ignoring her advice.
    • : of, by, or pertaining to clairvoyance: Unlike more talented witches, I had to make do with love potions and occasional clairvoyant visions.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a clairvoyant person: A clever clairvoyant could make a fortune in the stock market.

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Examples

  • Ed and Lorraine Warren, he a “demonologist” and she a clairvoyant, spent their lives investigating and combating the supernatural, which made them ideal protagonists for The Conjuring movie franchise based on their work.

  • Some choose to believe that these clairvoyants have other worldly insights that most people do not.

  • While some of these doctors were legitimate and extremely skilled, the term clairvoyant physician was generally used to describe your typical 19th-century quack.

  • I don’t think anybody was clairvoyant enough, wise enough to think that far down the road this was going to be a consequence.

  • The “clairvoyant camel” has picked Argentina over Germany in the World Cup final.

  • Because the former commissioner at the center of the “newly re-burgeoning” IRS “scandal” is clearly a clairvoyant.

  • The faculty members here are neither clairvoyant nor peering over shoulders.

  • It's not Dickens' finest work, but it may be one of his most clairvoyant.

  • It seemed as if Michel, in his own clairvoyant way, was already preparing to write Bush's memoirs.

  • Debussy is a man of unhampered and clairvoyant imagination, a dreamer with a far-wandering vision.

  • Before he had time to fly, one of them, with the rapidity of an arrow, struck his clairvoyant eye with a stick and burst it.

  • According to these words Ezekiel was either an out-and-out deceiver, a wicked man, or, he was a clairvoyant.

  • The clairvoyant added that he would probably live to a great age and die in a foreign land—a prophecy which did not comfort him.

  • With her face hidden by a thick vail, and accompanied by her maid she went to visit the clairvoyant who was spoken of so highly.