The Collaborative International Dictionary
Providential \Prov`i*den"tial\, a. [Cf. F. providentiel.] Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape. -- Prov"i*den"tial*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a providential manner.
WordNet
adv. in a fortunately providential manner; "providentially the weather remained good"
in a providential manner; as determined by providence; "his providentially destined role"
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." [syn: prudently] [ant: imprudently]
Usage examples of "providentially".
Yet Queen, immoral, illegitimate, nigra Queen, had been providentially blessed.
Providentially those skilled men did avoid it, and soon we stood upon the rocky shores of Stroma, which personally I thought a very pleasant place.
It was even said that he had gone as a pilgrim to Spain for no other reason than to bespeak the puissant aid of Saint James against his enemies at home, and that his sudden death had providentially saved the Limousin from a drenching with blood.
There were to be five gentlemen, so that each lady would have an arm to lean on when they went into dinner: Mr Carswall himself, Mr Noak, Sir George and Captain Ruispidge, and according to the original plan the Rector of Flaxern Parva, who providentially was a widower and so did not have a wife to unbalance the numbers.
Don Juste Lopez had had half his beard singed off at the muzzle of a trabuco loaded with slugs, of which every one missed him, providentially.
The unwritten constitution is the creation or constitution of the sovereign, and the sovereign providentially constituted constitutes in turn the government, which is not sovereign, but is clothed with just so much and just so little authority as the sovereign wills or ordains.
CHAPTER XIV PROVIDENTIALLY RESCUED THE eastern side of the Cordilleras of the Andes consists of a succession of lengthened declivities, which slope down almost insensibly to the plain.
Providentially, no ten minutes of Arc terminate upon either Bank, that burn'd and bloodied little huddle of Cabins, can provide no Object of Pilgrimage, any Prospect of lingering as much as a Fortnight, among these Ghosts, and the Desolation in which they wait, would have sent the Expedition on to some Station less haunted, extra Chaining and Calculating and all.
But the sea between the San Andreas and the horizon remained providentially empty.
I saw a squall line coming at me down the street, but was providentially right by the Student Center.