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[ US /ˈpɹɑvɪdənt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒvɪdənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. providing carefully for the future
    wild squirrels are provident
    wild squirrels are provident
    a provident father plans for his children's education
  2. careful in regard to your own interests
    wild squirrels are provident
    wild squirrels are provident
    the prudent use and development of resources

How To Use provident In A Sentence

  • He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon Trust
  • Their departure just before the floods was providential.
  • providential care
  • How providential it was to find you were actually with Gillorns in Newtown! IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • A glance at some of the Court's business cases this term demonstrate the important role it can play in protecting business from improvident regulation. Business Could Use A Friend
  • Yet all of the various elements which have historically been assigned to Fortune, Fate, and Chance are gathered into a single providential system of which the fortuitous is a part. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
  • The nation itself came to be seen in a providential or even millennial light.
  • Catharina having thus prevailed with her Mother, her bed made in the Garden Gallerie, and secret intelligence given to Ricciardo, for preparing his meanes of accesse to her window; old provident Lizio lockes the doore to bed-ward, and gives her liberty to come forth in the morning, for his owne lodging was neere to the same Gallery. The Decameron
  • When she rocks in its cradle the babe the young parents intrust to her heed; when she calls the kine to the milking, the chicks to their corn; when she but flits through my room to renew the flowers on the stand, or range in neat order the books that I read, no spell on her fancy could lead her a step from the range of her provident cares! A Strange Story — Volume 07
  • As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents.
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