All 9 Uses of
providence
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- I call it positively providential.
p. 43.4providential = lucky or resulting from God's intervention
- Marilla did not look as if she thought Providence had much to do with the matter.
p. 43.5providence = God's intervention
- Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who were; but grippe, she asserted, was like no other illness on earth and could only be interpreted as one of the special visitations of Providence.
p. 60.4
- However, I suppose I shall just have to trust to Providence and be careful to put in the flour.
p. 168.7providence = God's plan
- Anne permitted herself to be led down and comforted, reflecting that it was really providential that Mrs. Allan was a kindred spirit.
p. 172.3providential = lucky or resulting from God's intervention
- "I call it providential," said Diana.
p. 197.6
- It's providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the garret, or I'd never have been able to get through.
p. 198.5providential = lucky or good
- But mine was answered, for the flat bumped right into a pile for a minute and I flung the scarf and the shawl over my shoulder and scrambled up on a big providential stub.
p. 218.9providential = lucky or resulting from God's intervention
- She's been a blessing to us, and there never was a luckier mistake than what Mrs. Spencer made--if it WAS luck. I don't believe it was any such thing. It was Providence, because the Almighty saw we needed her, I reckon.
p. 270.2 *providence = God's plan
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.