All 4 Uses
providence
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence.†
Chpt 2 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- I have ever regarded it as the first plain manifestation of that kind providence which has ever since attended me, and marked my life with so many favors.†
Chpt 5
- I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.†
Chpt 5
- Thanks to a kind Providence, I fell to the portion of Mrs. Lucretia, and was sent immediately back to Baltimore, to live again in the family of Master Hugh.†
Chpt 8
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.