Literary notes about clairvoyant (AI summary)
Literary usage of “clairvoyant” covers a wide spectrum—from individuals with supernatural skills that reveal hidden truths to metaphors for acute intuitive insight. Some authors depict the clairvoyant as a mystical figure capable of perceiving apparitions or foretelling future events ([1], [2], [3]), while others extend the term to encompass those who display exceptional perceptiveness in more mundane or even scientific arenas ([4], [5], [6]). At times the word is employed with irony or skepticism, critiquing charlatans or tempering expectations of psychic prowess ([7], [8], [9]). In all these contexts, “clairvoyant” enriches the narrative by blurring the lines between what is seen and what is intuited ([10], [11], [12]).
- Joseph was clairvoyant, and beheld apparitions, but on the whole (apart from his moral excellence) his flights were his most notable accomplishment.
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang - In a minute or so, the clairvoyant uttered a cry of astonishment, and exclaimed: “Why, how strange!
— from Adventurings in the Psychical by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce - For to the clairvoyant, the changes which occur in the etheric body of a person attaining to inspiration and intuition appear in the following manner.
— from An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner - There is probably no good clairvoyant physician who has not often made successful predictions concerning patients.
— from Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887Volume 1, Number 3 - Mrs. Thompson is another clairvoyant and automatic writer who has been much appreciated by modern Spiritualists.
— from Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined by Joseph McCabe - I continued: “I am a sorcerer, my dear girl, I am a clairvoyant.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - You know the difference between my powers and the fakes of a two-dollar clairvoyant.
— from The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings - you don’t know Jules Landau, le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant ?
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - We can only say to those who shall read this chapter, that there is not in the City of New York an honest fortune-teller or clairvoyant.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Lifeor, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe - He had seen through Mr. Spokesly at once, for your idealist is often a clairvoyant of character.
— from Command by William McFee - “You have a clairvoyant streak in your Scotch blood?”
— from The Shadow of Life by Anne Douglas Sedgwick - Clairvoyant sight alone can reveal its workings.
— from An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner
