Providence
['prɒvɪd(ə)ns] or ['prɑvɪdəns]
Definition
(noun.) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity; 'divine providence'.
(noun.) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources.
(noun.) the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University.
(noun.) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures.
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Definition
(n.) The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
(n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.
(n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
(n.) Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Forethought, forecast, timely care.[2]. Divine government, divine superintendence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Forethought, timely_care, forecast, divine_government,{divine_superintendence}
ANT:Improvidence, recklessness, carelessness
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Definition
n. timely preparation: (theol.) the foresight and care of God over all His creatures: God considered in this relation: something occurring in which God's care is clearly shown: prudence in managing one's affairs.—adjs. Prov′ident seeing beforehand and providing for the future: cautious: prudent: economical; Providen′tial effected by or proceeding from divine providence.—advs. Providen′tially; Prov′idently.—n. Prov′identness.
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Examples
- Oh, Providence is kind! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, then, we'll all go ahead and buy up niggers, said the man, if that's the way of Providence,--won't we, Squire? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I suppose it answers some wise ends: Providence made them so, eh, Bulstrode? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was a little particular of Providence,' said the foreign gentleman, laughing; 'for the frontier is not large. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ah, my dear Miss Bart, I am not divine Providence, to guarantee your enjoying the things you are trying to get! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was that, in my being brought low, he saw the finger of Providence. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He went back to Providence and set to work, and brought the engine back with him to the shop. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience, purely by the favor of providence in the shape of an old gentleman's caprice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is a good deal of trusting in Providence about the whole scheme, said Justinian, with a sigh. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Ah, but in doing it--in doing it you were the unconscious instrument of--of--what word have we moderns for Providence, Mr. Archer? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It has pleased Providence to postpone the attainment of this object. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- After five years of misunderstandings on the stairs, it pleased an all-wise Providence to relieve us of each other by taking my wife. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Yes, continued the tall man, we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Whether Providence had taken equal care of Miss Brooke in presenting her with Mr. Casaubon was an idea which could hardly occur to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They are a kind of providences that you'll have to be pretty sparing of, Master Sam. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- These yer 's all providences. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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