Definition of Oracularity

1. Noun. Oracular speech or behaviour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oracularity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oracularity

orach
orache
oraches
orachs
oracies
oracle
oracle machine
oracle machines
oracle of Delphi
oracled
oracles
oracling
oracular
oracularities
oracularity (current term)
oracularly
oraculous
oraculously
oraculousness
oracy
orad
oragious
oraison
oral (erosive) lichen planus
oral availability
oral biology
oral cancer

Literary usage of Oracularity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"Now Stanfield has no mysticism or oracularity about him. You can see what he means at once. His style is as simple and manly as a seaman's song. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"But at present it has still far too much of the flavor of child-of-the-world oracularity. Compare it only with the grave dramatic gro- ..."

3. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... and fancy " The Fallacies of Hope " to be one of the finest poems in the world. Now Stanfield has no mysticism or oracularity about him. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"This we conceive to be in the purest style of the hieroglyphics, and to establish Coleridge's oracularity beyond all question. James Smith held the office ..."

5. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"Everybody by this time knows how a modern high-schoolmistress talks—how she repudiates the precision, the stateliness, the awe-inspiring oracularity of the ..."

6. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"By this form of discourse, if discourse it can be called, an air of mysticism and oracularity is cast over it. This was among the characteristics of the ..."

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