Definitions for providences

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providences prov·i·dence

Spelling: [prov-i-duh ns]

IPA: /ˈprɒv ɪ dəns/

Providences is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1175 anagrams from letters in providences (cdeeinoprsv).

Definitions for providences

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth.
2. (initial capital letter) God, especially when conceived as omnisciently directing the universe and the affairs of humankind with wise benevolence.
3. a manifestation of divine care or direction.
4. provident or prudent management of resources; prudence.
5. foresight; provident care.
6. a seaport in and the capital of Rhode Island, in the NE part, at the head of Narragansett Bay.

Origin of providences

1300-50; Middle English Latin prōvidentia foresight, forethought. See provident, -ence

Examples for providences

It is because we do not accept providences that providences hurt.

Thou wouldst wonder if thou knewest one half of my providences.

Yet all these are providences too,—lessons of life, and parts of our schools and schoolmasters.

It leaves itself to be conducted by God's providences and creatures.

In elegant phraseology they are providences; in plain language they are milch-cows.

We must wait on His word and on His providences while they examine us all this week.

The tendency of this way of thinking will inevitably be, to hunt for providences.

He is not idle, and there is no such thing as inertia in the providences and in the purposes of God.

But this is not all that is worthy of note, in this strange chapter of providences.

The providences of God were not passed by without his minute observation.