providential
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From Latin prōvidentia (“providence”) + -al.
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providential (comparative more providential, superlative most providential)
- Pertaining to divine providence. [from 17th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 88:
- The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes.
- Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: heaven-sent, fortunate, lucky, serendipitous
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