How To Use Providential In A Sentence
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He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon
Trust
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Their departure just before the floods was providential.
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providential care
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How providential it was to find you were actually with Gillorns in Newtown!
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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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
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The nation itself came to be seen in a providential or even millennial light.
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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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This combination of physical and mental conditions so amazingly favorable to the spread of the Voltairean ideas was a circumstance independent of the state of the surrounding atmosphere, and was what in the phraseology of prescientific times might well have been called providential.
Voltaire
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The tautological, circumlocutory argument of American Exceptionalism can be stated thusly: “We are on a providentially inspired mission and are guided by a ‘Higher Power’, therefore whatever our actions or policies, we cannot be in the wrong.”
American Exceptionalism
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Our country has a providential position in our century in relation to Europe, and our efforts to Catholicize and sanctify it give it an importance, in a religious aspect, of a most interesting and significant character.
Life of Father Hecker
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As a matter of fact, this condensed expression condenses a series of positive features, rising above the controversial and dark facets of migration, beginning with the observation that "the passage from monocultural to multicultural societies can be a sign of the living presence of God in history and in the community of mankind, for it offers a providential opportunity for the fulfillment of God’s plan for a universal communion" n.
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Since Fortuna is a personification of the fortuitous, and the fortuitous is a branch of the chain of causality, its normal place in the providential scheme is within the realm of Fate, which is the unfolding of Providence in multiplicity and time.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
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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
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The appearance of Marshall Lee Miller to handle his defence against the passport violation charge had seemed more than just providential.
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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First and most important, according to serious theism, God is constantly, immediately, intimately and directly active in his creation: he constantly upholds it in existence and providentially governs it.
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The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.
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a benevolent, providential God which sustains his perfectibilist hopes.
PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN
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The blessing of the Parish Centre providentially falls on the 12th of December, the day when in Mexico and in the Americas celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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The important thing to note is that these criticisms run up against the source of religious belief in the ignorance which induces men to believe the world to be governed providentially, that is, by God's purposes and for man's benefit.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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On the contrary, the experience of Christ as Creator points us to particular creatures as those objects of God's providential care without which our understanding of the divine identity is impoverished.
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In such a situation, the possibility of going away on an international residency presents itself as a very real relief, a providential oasis or retreat to an artist.
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But it is time to turn to some of those special and rare outgates that the Amen with the keys gave to His favoured handmaiden, the Lady Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments.
Samuel Rutherford
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But by progress must not be understood the imaginary and metaphysical _law of progress_, which should lead the generations of man with irresistible force to some unknown destiny, according to a providential plan which we can logically divine and understand.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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We believe in the authority, sufficiency, inspiration, perspicuity, inerrancy and providential preservation of the Scriptures.
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The announcement seems providential at a time when good news is in short supply.
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The relief he had "providentially" been able to afford to Emily's mind was the medium of an abundant satisfaction.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
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He added in a low voice, ‘With my tiddle tol toor rul’ — when he was providentially stopped by Towlinson, who announced:
Dombey and Son
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‘The hand of God’ is an anthropomorphic term for the creative power, providential care, and saving grace of God.
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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The word ‘secular’ also alludes to the moral call to homo faber to share in the divine providential ordering of creation.
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Buena Vista Social Club's nomination last year was welcomed as a sign of providential change in the academy.
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Was my name providentially ordered to be Green, that he might pass verbal contumely upon it?
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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No fire, no wine or spirits, or medicine of any kind, and no person being within call, but luckily, perhaps the occasion would better suit the word providentially, Tuffin, calling, took me home with him.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
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a providential visitation
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Canavan said they wanted to know in their hearts the fire was either accidental or providential before paying the claim.
WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
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We can trust that everything that happens in our lives is under the providential care of God.
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It was providential that he purchased this exceptional pen and he took the trouble to research its history.
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I'm particularly pleased because for some reason writing that story was like corralling butterflies, and took many drafts, quite a lot of whining, and many long walks while I talked it all over with Ellen before Kelly providentially said the magic one thing that allowed me to bring the whole thing together and make it make sense.
Still Writing
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These acids transfer the system into the order: oxalacetic acid, malic acid, fumaric acid, and succinic acid, then, in the form of active hydrogen, to encounter the active oxygen from «the red system» and form water and free energy - a series of providentially subdued explosions which I alluded to before as a dramatic encounter.
Physiology or Medicine 1937 - Presentation Speech
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As the recent research of Warren Johnston has shown, after 1660 providentialism and millenarianism were still vibrant and robust means for understanding the meaning of contemporary events.
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assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan
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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
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If then this distinction is denied, and the providential will of God asserted to be declarative of his preceptive, and so of his approbative will; it remains to be manifested, where and how it has been appointed of God for such an end, an end that is by the Spirit of God denied unto it: _Eccl. _ ix, 1, 2, 4.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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Providentially, he had earlier made friends with a Russian Colonel.
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It is deep time that opens a new view of nature, which if it lacks the Divine fiat, the miraculous and providential, is no less sublime in its own way.
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But when they thought themselves happily settled, intelligence was sent to Mr. Bertie, that it had been contrived in England to seize them there; whereby they were obliged on a sudden to haste to a s town called Winheim, in the Palsgrave's dominions, where they staid till their necessaries began to fail; and then it providentially happened, that Sigismund II.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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How providential it was to find you were actually with Gillorns in Newtown!
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Assuming that appeals to providential history have been successfully banished from the repertoire of secular progressivism, surely the same ban must apply to the religious thought from which progressives once unconsciously and incautiously borrowed.
Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism
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But that which completes the comfort of this is that he is the head over all things to the church; he is entrusted with all power, that is, that he may dispose of all the affairs of the providential kingdom in subserviency to the designs of his grace concerning his church.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Their God could act providentially, and their religious beliefs helped to shape their faith in republican government and the natural law that, in their view, underlay its principles.
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Joachim of Fiore saw the millennial pattern of apocalypse as the very pattern of providential history itself.
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A providential wind carried the raft to the shore.
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In this view, forests, rivers, streams, waterfalls, and even deserts were providentially located at convenient locations, awaiting the hand of man.
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Their God could act providentially, and their religious beliefs helped to shape their faith in republican government and the natural law that, in their view, underlay its principles.
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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
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The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.
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This providential interposition is all the more remarkable, that, as in the analogous case of Joseph, it was displayed in making the ordinary and natural course of things lead to the most marvellous results.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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(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
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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
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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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
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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
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Plastic nature enables Cudworth to account for the providential ordering of the universe without falling into the trap of occasionalism.
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The announcement seems providential at a time when good news is in short supply.
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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.
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providentially the weather remained good
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The exhortation is sustained by the assurance of God's essential rectitude in that providential government which provides perpetual blessings for the good, and perpetual misery for the wicked.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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But I think providentially, the world also has new knowledge about the best ways, the most impactful ways to reduce child malnutrition.
Mobilizing to End Child Hunger
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That's what I think Americans can do with this providential period of prosperity and peace.
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It was the sign of providential approval of our holiday, an indication that the world really was adjusting itself to us.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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his providentially destined role
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A message from a Catholic priest: "Your providential success is good for all since, in applauding you, we proclaim the very evangelic truth and charity which give life and salvation their being.
Georges Pire - Nobel Lecture
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Epicurus arguments are effective only against the view that the world was providentially designed for the benefit of humans.
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Canavan said they wanted to know in their hearts the fire was either accidental or providential before paying the claim.
WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
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James was portrayed as a victim of the affair, and attempts were made to turn the scandal to his advantage by presenting images of the plot's providential discovery and James's personal involvement as the avenger of Overbury's murder.
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It was the sign of providential approval of our holiday, an indication that the world really was adjusting itself to us.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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A high-voltage wire snapped and fell on the busy road on Monday afternoon, and pedestrians and motorists had a providential escape.
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a providential recovery
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However, her ordeal came to an end somewhat providentially.
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Christians confess the lordship and the providential care of God over the world.
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But the man in his freedom, who co-operates with the God in the providential order, is often brought before the reader in the Iliad as well as in the Odyssey (see author's _Com. on the Iliad_, pp. 129, 157, 216, etc.).
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
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As the war dragged on, Lincoln came to believe, despite his skeptical outlook, that a providential purpose was at work: the war was divine retribution for our long acceptance of slavery.
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He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
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Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments.
Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
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Moreover, it is a tale of providential escapes; thrice has the so-called Cretan been saved specially, in Ægypt, from the
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
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Besides formal remittances, our friends of 55 Gracechurch Street, sent us occasional presents of fish, fruit, and other acceptable "oddments;" and to the last day I have been in town I could not pass No. 55 without a look of grateful remembrance towards both God and man; and a renewed recognition of that providential guidance, by which life is often insensibly turned into new, pleasant or useful channels.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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So this man stands as a bright, consummate flower which had at last effloresced from the roots; and in his own person, an embodiment of the very results which God had patiently sought through millenniums of providential dealing and inspiration.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
