Both Uses
providence
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- It will be laid to us, whose providence
Should have kept short, restrained, and out of haunt
This mad young man.†p. 189.9 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky - There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.†
p. 271.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(providence as in: divine providence) resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely providence may mean to prepare for the future. This is the sense that relates more directly to provident or improvident.