Both Uses of
providence
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?†
Chpt 1.4 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- That Providence, however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the nature of the prisoner's schemes, and, struck with horror, to disclose them to his Majesty's Chief Secretary of State and most honourable Privy Council.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(providence as in: divine providence) resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely providence may mean to prepare for the future. This is the sense that relates more directly to provident or improvident.