providential

Speech parts

1. providential - Adjective

2. providential - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

divine miraculous heaven-sent elysian golden blest right good successful lucky chancy seasonable appropriate suitable bright
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Antonyms

bad adverse unhappy disastrous catastrophic sad
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

There are no coincidences in life. All things are providential. They are allowed for our salvation, in correspondence with our inner state and needs. Seraphim Rose

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star. Carl Sagan

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential. Antoni Gaudí

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. Cormac McCarthy

We must leave on one side the beliefs which fill up voids and sweeten what is bitter. The belief in immortality. The belief in the utility of sin: etiam peccata. The belief in the providential ordering of events - in short the "consolations" which are ordinarily sought in religion. Simone Weil

Providential aid at a critical moment. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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