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UK
/pɹˌɒvɪdˈɛnʃəl/
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[ US /ˌpɹɑvəˈdɛnʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌpɹɑvəˈdɛnʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention
a heaven-sent rain saved the crops
a providential recovery -
relating to or characteristic of providence
assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan -
resulting from divine providence
a providential visitation
providential care
How To Use providential In A Sentence
- On the morning of the day before Judy's departure Blanche, who, half-packed, was still trying to make up her mind, received a letter that, with no sense of impiousness, she considered providential. Secret Bread
- providentially the weather remained good
- Thus the coming of Islam may be seen as a providential occurrence that allowed the Jews to slip between the cracks Islam made in Byzantine Church persecution.
- The announcement seems providential at a time when good news is in short supply.
- Plastic nature enables Cudworth to account for the providential ordering of the universe without falling into the trap of occasionalism.
- After all, the providential appearance of the fog saved a part of our army from being captured, and certainly myself among others who formed the rear guard. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
- Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
- He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
- No fire, no wine or spirits, or medicine of any kind, and no person being within a call, but luckily, perhaps the occasion would better suit the word providentially, Tuffin, calling, took me home with him .... Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
- (suspectable), occasionally and alternatively used by husband when having writing to do in connection with equitable druids and friendly or other societies through periods of dire want with comparative plenty (thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality) to a sofa allbeit of hoarsehaar with Amodicum cloth, hired payono, still playing off, used by the youngsters for czurnying out oldstrums, three bedrooms upastairs, of which one with fireplace (aspectable), with greenhouse in prospect (par-ticularly perspectable). Finnegans Wake