seance
pronunciation
How to pronounce seance in British English:
UK ['seɪɒ̃s]
How to pronounce seance in American English:
US ['seɪɑns]
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- Noun:
- a meeting of spiritualists
Word Origin
- séance
- séance: see session
- seance (n.)
- 1789, "sitting, session," as of a learned society, from French séance "a sitting," from seoir "to sit," from Latin sedere (see sedentary). Meaning "spiritualistic session" first recorded 1845.
Example
- 1. Five people held a seance last eve .
- 2. She 's agreed to a seance !
- 3. How ? Like tarot cards in the attic ? A seance in her sleep ?
- 4. When the mother of henry james , a 19th-century american novelist , appeared at a seance with a message for him , he was not surprised .
- 5. Seance 101 : physical mediumship : table tipping , psychic photography , trumpet seances , and other important phenomena .