All 5 Uses
clairvoyance
in
Alias Grace
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- I could go about the fairs, he said, and be a fire-eater, or else a medical clairvoyant, and trade in Mesmerism and Magnetism, which is always a draw.†
Chpt 8 *
- You could be a medical clairvoyant; I would teach you how, and instruct you in what to say, and put you into the trances.†
Chpt 8
- But then I recalled that he'd once travelled about as a Mesmerist, and done medical clairvoyance at fairs, and really did know the arts of such things, and might put me into a trance.†
Chpt 9
- He's been told of the clairvoyant powers of those under hypnosis, but he's never believed in them before.†
Chpt 13
- And I remembered the time I might have run away with him, and become a gypsy or a medical clairvoyant, as I was certainly tempted to do; and in that case my fate would have been very different.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(clairvoyance) to perceive things beyond the natural range of the senses -- especially foreseeing the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)