Providential
adjective
Happening at just the right time as though guided by a divine power.
His arrival in the city was providential, as he was able to prevent a major disaster.
adjective
Relating to God's intervention or provision.
The farmer believed in a providential guidance that would help his crops to grow.
Usage tips
Religious
adjective
Happening at just the right time as though guided by a divine power.
His arrival in the city was providential, as he was able to prevent a major disaster.
adjective
Relating to God's intervention or provision.
The farmer believed in a providential guidance that would help his crops to grow.
Usage tips
Religious
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Timely Coincidence
Use 'providential' when an event's timing seems perfect and unusually beneficial, as if by fate.
Her providential win at the lottery came just when she needed money for college.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
It implies something good or fortunate happens, not something bad or unfortunate.
The rain stopping right before our outdoor event was truly providential.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Deliberate
Stress that the event seems unplanned by humans; use 'providential' for lucky accidents, not intentional acts.
Finding the lost key in the trash on garbage day was providential.
Pro Tip 1/3Timely Coincidence
Use 'providential' when an event's timing seems perfect and unusually beneficial, as if by fate.
Her providential win at the lottery came just when she needed money for college.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
It implies something good or fortunate happens, not something bad or unfortunate.
The rain stopping right before our outdoor event was truly providential.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Deliberate
Stress that the event seems unplanned by humans; use 'providential' for lucky accidents, not intentional acts.
Finding the lost key in the trash on garbage day was providential.
Pro Tip 1/3Timely Coincidence
Use 'providential' when an event's timing seems perfect and unusually beneficial, as if by fate.
Her providential win at the lottery came just when she needed money for college.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Outcome
It implies something good or fortunate happens, not something bad or unfortunate.
The rain stopping right before our outdoor event was truly providential.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Deliberate
Stress that the event seems unplanned by humans; use 'providential' for lucky accidents, not intentional acts.
Finding the lost key in the trash on garbage day was providential.
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Quote examples
Sebastian Faulks
British Novelist
Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.
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Meir Soloveichik
American Clergyman
There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.
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Antoni Gaudi
Spanish Architect
In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.
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Sebastian Faulks
British Novelist
Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.
Quote examples
Meir Soloveichik
American Clergyman
There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.
Quote examples
Antoni Gaudi
Spanish Architect
In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.
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