providentially


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prov·i·den·tial

 (prŏv′ĭ-dĕn′shəl)
adj.
1. Of or resulting from divine providence.
2. Happening as if through divine intervention; opportune. See Synonyms at fortunate.

prov′i·den′tial·ly adv.
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Adv.1.providentially - in a fortunately providential manner; "providentially the weather remained good"
2.providentially - in a providential manner; as determined by providence; "his providentially destined role"
3.providentially - 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."
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Translations

providentially

[ˌprɒvɪˈdenʃəlɪ] ADVprovidencialmente; (= fortunately) → afortunadamente, milagrosamente
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providentially

[ˌprɒvɪˈdɛnʃəli] adv (= fortunately) → providentiellement
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providentially

adv (= luckily)glücklicherweise; it happened almost providentiallydas war gleichsam eine Fügung (des Schicksals)
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providentially

[ˌprɒvɪˈdɛnʃlɪ] advprovvidenzialmente
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References in classic literature ?
I am very fortunate indeed to have stumbled so providentially upon succor.
Providentially, as I then thought--I don't know what to think of it now--the landlord of the house happened to be a friend of mine, and happened to be at home.
It is true that providentially it was so, and might be taken so in a consequent sense; but I believe it would have been no difficult matter at that time to have persuaded the poor woman to have believed that an express messenger came from heaven on purpose to bring that individual book.
The trout they caught were too poor to yield much nourishment; their main dependence, therefore, was upon an old beaver trap, which they had providentially retained.
Lemuel Struthers, and the Countess's joyous greeting of them, had rather providentially broken.
All I possessed were on me, and they were as follows: a pair of sea-boots that providentially leaked the water out as fast as it ran in, a pair of fifty-cent overalls, a forty-cent cotton shirt, and a sou'wester.
The result was that we got choicer rooms at the hotel in Chamonix than we should have done if his majesty had been a slower artist--or rather, if he hadn't most providentially got drunk before he left Argentie`re.
I really believe Joe would have prolonged this word (mightily expressive to my mind of some architecture that I know) into a perfect Chorus, but for his attention being providentially attracted by his hat, which was toppling.
Strickland had no papers, but that was not a matter to disconcert Tough Bill when he saw a profit (he took the first month's wages of the sailor for whom he found a berth), and he provided Strickland with those of an English stoker who had providentially died on his hands.
At the end of my first year with the Indians there came another opening for me at Hampton, which, as I look back over my life now, seems to have come providentially, to help to prepare me for my work at Tuskegee later.
It was, I confess, beyond my hope to meet with this rare combination of elements both solid and attractive, adapted to supply aid in graver labors and to cast a charm over vacant hours; and but for the event of my introduction to you (which, let me again say, I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs, but providentially related thereto as stages towards the completion of a life's plan), I should presumably have gone on to the last without any attempt to lighten my solitariness by a matrimonial union.
The historians on our side tell us that the armies of the allied powers were all providentially on a war-footing, and ready to bear down at a moment's notice upon the Elban Emperor.