Both Uses of
providence
in
Light in August
- So she seems to muse upon the mounting road while the slowspitting and squatting men watch her covertly, believing that she is thinking about the man and the approaching crisis, when in reality she is waging a mild battle with that providential caution of the old earth of and with and by which she lives.†
Chpt 1 *
- He did it as though under the protection of a magic or a providence, or as if he knew that Christmas would not be waiting there with the pistol.†
Chpt 19providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
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.