Its setting between harbor and sky feels providential.
But stepping back from this unhappy scene reveals the providential paradox.
At one time showed her safety to a providential change in the wind.
Even as he was dying at age seventy-six, he had trouble accepting the collapse of a political order he considered providential.
By providential chance he learns who was in the fatal car.
Certainly, there was something providential about it-from the point of view of the teacher as well as of the taught.
His seclusion came to an end in a distinctly providential manner.
If not, it was providential, for at last it stirred the cheers that people were accustomed to giving at papal elections.
The refusal of one of her beloved dogs to get into the car with her was a providential warning.
British Dictionary definitions for providential
providential
/ˌprɒvɪˈdɛnʃəl/
adjective
1.
relating to, characteristic of, or presumed to proceed from or as if from divine providence
Derived Forms
providentially, adverb
Word Origin and History for providential
adj.
1610s, "pertaining to foresifght" (implied in providentially); 1640s as "pertaining to divine providence," from Latin providentia (see providence) + -al (1). Meaning "by divine interposition" is recorded from 1719.