providential
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英英释意
- 1. peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention;
- "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"
- "a providential recovery"
- 2. relating to or characteristic of providence;
- "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen
- 3. resulting from divine providence;
- "providential care"
- "a providential visitation"