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Providential

adjective

Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention. Synonyms: heaven-sent, miraculous. "A providential recovery"

Relating to or characteristic of providence.

Resulting from divine providence. Synonym: divine. "A providential visitation"

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"Providential" Quotes from Famous Books

... thought this. The South thought that it could easily whip the Yankees; and the North thought that it could suppress a Southern rebellion in six weeks. Both sides miscalculated. And so, in spite of warnings, the nation drifted into war; but as it turned out in the end it seems a providential event, —the way God took to break up slavery, the root and source of all our sectional animosities; a terrible but apparently necessary catastrophe, since more than a million of brave men perished, and more than five thousand millions of dollars were spent. Had the North been ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII • John Lord

... sake as well as Nellie's," spoke Grace. "It's really kind of you, and quite providential ...

— The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale • Laura Lee Hope

... in favor of the English? By what providential circumstance did the Americans escape? What were the prison ships? Who were the Hessians? Tell the story of ...

— A Brief History of the United States • Barnes & Co.

... death in the late fight was so wonderful as to seem clearly Providential. His friends and members of his church in Cincinnati had presented him with a pair of handsome revolvers. One of these he wore in the breast of his coat during the fight. A partially-spent Minie-ball ...

— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett

... He was a very venerable looking old man, with gray locks curling down on his shoulders, but very stout and hearty; and, as Ben had told him all about me, he took notice of me, and appeared also to take an interest. When I came back, after the providential escape I have mentioned in the last chapter, Ben had narrated to him the conduct of my mother; and a day or two afterward, when the frost had broken up, and they were both sitting down, basking in the sun, which was shining bright, ...

— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat

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