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US
/ˈpɹɑvɪdənt/
]
[ UK /pɹˈɒvɪdənt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒvɪdənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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providing carefully for the future
wild squirrels are provident
wild squirrels are provident
a provident father plans for his children's education -
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.