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Definition: Providentially |
ProvidentiallyAdverb1. In a fortunately providential manner; "providentially the weather remained good". 2. In a providential manner; as determined by providence; "his providentially destined role". 3. In a prudent manner; "I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "providentially" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Synonym: ProvidentiallySynonym: prudently (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: imprudently (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Providentially |
| Specialty definitions using "providentially": INTIMACY. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Two Seidlitz powders, one in blue And one in white, together drew And having each a pleasant sense Of t'other powder's excellence, Forsook their jackets for the snug Enjoyment of a common mug. So close their intimacy grew One paper would have held the two. To confidences straight they fell, Less anxious each to hear than tell; Then each remorsefully confessed To all the virtues he possessed, Acknowledging he had them in So high degree it was a sin. The more they said, the more they felt Their spirits with emotion melt, Till tears of sentiment expressed Their feelings. Then they effervesced! So Nature executes her feats Of wrath on friends and sympathetes The good old rule who don't apply, That you are you and I am I. |
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| "Providentially" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Providentially" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "providentially"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | si me porosi, si me magji. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | glückliche (prosperously). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovidentiallypray kısmetli bir biçimde, hızır gibi, allah'tan (fortunately, luckily). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Providentially" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: providentialist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-p-r-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: providential. | |
-3 letters: deprivation, editorially, inviolately, plaintively, providently. | |
-4 letters: adoptively, depilation, depilatory, derivation, dilatorily, divinatory, inertially, intrepidly, orientally, pavilioned, pollinated, polyvalent, ponytailed, vitriolled. | |
-5 letters: arytenoid, davenport, depravity, deviation, deviatory, dietarily, editorial, epilation, interlaid, interplay, invalidly, inviolate, lineality, linearity, oedipally, operantly, overplaid, overplant, painterly, patrolled, pellitory, perdition, pilloried, pivotally, plaintive, planetoid, pointedly, pollinate, predation, privately, privation. | |
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