divining

Etymology

noun

  1. The action of the verb to divine in any sense.
    We took a long stroll through the lamp-lit streets, talking of the blessed hopes that struggled in our bosoms; of the faint divinings of the future; told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion. 1857, Martha Griffith Browne, Autobiography of a Female Slave, page 347

adj

  1. That or who divines (in any sense of the verb).

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of divine

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