All 7 Uses of
providence
in
The Mill on the Floss
- I don't like to fly i' the face o' Providence, but it seems hard as I should have but one gell, an' her so comical.†
Chpt 1.2providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- And it's flying i' the face o' Providence; for what are the doctors for, if we aren't to call 'em in?†
Chpt 1.9 *
- He thought religion was a very excellent thing, and Aristotle a great authority, and deaneries and prebends useful institutions, and Great Britain the providential bulwark of Protestantism, and faith in the unseen a great support to afflicted minds; he believed in all these things, as a Swiss hotel-keeper believes in the beauty of the scenery around him, and in the pleasure it gives to artistic visitors.†
Chpt 2.1
- Providence or some other prince of this world, it appears, has undertaken the task of retribution for us; and really, by an agreeable constitution of things, our enemies somehow don't prosper.†
Chpt 3.7providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- Lors, I think the moths an' the mildew was sent by Providence o' purpose to cheapen the goods a bit for the good-lookin' women as han't got much money.†
Chpt 5.2
- If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified; by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.†
Chpt 5.3
- But the refined instinct of the world's wife was not to be deceived; providentially!†
Chpt 7.2
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) 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.