All 7 Uses of
providence
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Jose Buendia, trying to surprise Divine Providence in the midst of the cataclysm, was the one who least understood it.†
Chpt 3 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- You were sent by Divine Providence.†
Chpt 7
- Consult Divine Providence.†
Chpt 9
- Endowed with means that had been reserved for Divine Providence in former times, they changed the pattern of the rams, accelerated the cycle of harvest, and moved the river from where it had always been and put it with its white stones and icy currents on the other side of the town, behind the cemetery.†
Chpt 12
- At first Aureliano Segundo would spend three days of the week shut up in what had been his rancher's office drawing ticket after ticket, Painting with a fair skill a red cow, a green pig, or a group of blue hens, according to the animal being raffled, and he would sketch out a good imitation of printed numbers and the name that Petra Cotes thought good to call the business: Divine Providence Raffles.†
Chpt 17
- Here's Divine Providence," he hawked.†
Chpt 17
- They finally lost respect for him, made fun of him, and in his last months they no longer called him Don Aureliano, as they had always done, but they called him Mr. Divine Providence right to his face.†
Chpt 17
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.