All 6 Uses of
providence
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- It was idyllic: and Father Conmee reflected on the providence of the Creator who had made turf to be in bogs whence men might dig it out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor people.†
Chpt 10 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- Merciful providence had been pleased to put a period to the sufferings of the lady who was enceinte which she had borne with a laudable fortitude and she had given birth to a bouncing boy.†
Chpt 14
- The Providential.†
Chpt 15
- (They move off with slow heavy tread) BLOOM: (Blows) Providential you came on the scene†
Chpt 15
- Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Tobias or, he being the solicitor rather, old Wall, he meant to say, or Mahony which simply spelt ruin for a chap when it got bruited about.†
Chpt 16
- Nevertheless, without going into the minutiae of the business, the eloquent fact remained that the sea was there in all its glory and in the natural course of things somebody or other had to sail on it and fly in the face of providence though it merely went to show how people usually contrived to load that sort of onus on to the other fellow like the hell idea and the lottery and insurance which were run on identically the same lines so that for that very reason if no other lifeboat Sunday was a highly laudable institution to which the public at large, no matter where livin†
Chpt 16providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
Definition:
resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened