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adjective
- Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
- 1993, w:Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess, w:A Dead Man in Deptford, A Dead Man in Deptford:
- :The truth of life lay in the messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 129:
- :"Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes," proclaimed Miles, with a sort of swoon in his voice.
Etymology: From vates "seer, poet".
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