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What does sibylline mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
  2. (by extension) Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
  3. mysterious
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The thoughts of these men are like the sibylline leaves, profound but lost.
Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
And was it founded in obedience to some sibylline direction?
In her last 15 years Dickinson averaged 35 poems a year and conducted her social life mainly through her chiselled and often sibylline written messages.
It is a sibylline answer which nowise prejudices what he may do in future.
They gave her a sibylline, vaguely Eastern air, and although they hid more of the body than a corseted gown with conventional crinolines, they were considered bohemian.

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