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• n  the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment)

• In a metropolis of psychics, the question is, How can fortunetelling be illegal?.
• It announced that it would hereafter reject "all advertising pertaining to luck, mysticism, fortunetelling, get rich-quick schemes," and the like.
• Not the least of Miss Adams' achievements in behalf of her art was raising astrology from the status of fortunetelling, illegal in New York State.

News & Articles

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• For Episcopal Church’s Leader, a Sermon Leads to More Dissent
  Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, has been criticized for her interpretation of Paul’s actions toward a fortunetelling slave girl.
  June 21, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Clayton Greene, Jr. in Washington Post
  ...decision is not so important for what it says about the craft of fortunetelling -- indeed, Judge Clayton Greene Jr. noted in the majority opinion that "Fortunetelling may be pure entertainment, it may give individuals some insight into the...