All 9 Uses of

providence

in

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again.
Chpt 3

providence = God's plan

I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow's Providence, but if Miss Watson's got him there warn't no help for him any more.†
Chpt 3

I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow's Providence, but if Miss Watson's got him there warn't no help for him any more.
Chpt 3

providence = (views of) God's plan or intervention

They couldn't hit no project that suited exactly; so at last the duke said he reckoned he'd lay off and work his brains an hour or two and see if he couldn't put up something on the Arkansaw village; and the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way—meaning the devil, I reckon.
Chpt 24

providence = luck; or "God's intervention"

And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there's One that's always on the lookout, and ain't a-going to allow no such miserable doings to go only just so fur and no further, I most dropped in my tracks I was so scared.
Chpt 31

providence = God's intervention

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come;
Chpt 32 *

providence = luck; or God's intervention

...for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.
Chpt 32

Providence had stood by me this fur all right, but I was hard and tight aground now.
Chpt 32

Definition:

resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened