providential

the Rosetta stone, that providential archaeological find.

a providential recovery. See also Synonyms at fit 1 glad 1 unhappy

a providential turn of events

But the country stands firm around Churchill and with the providential aid of Roosevelt.

" These, my dear Dorothea, are providential arrangements" .

That vacuum was providential for a bathroom.

It was Providential that the foot was not crushed.

" How providential that he had presence of mind to think of the water-jug" !

It's providential that I practiced those recitations so often up in the garret, or I'd never have been able to get through.

To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts.

Others were of opinion that Mr. Lydgate's passing by was providential, that he was wonderfully clever in fevers, and that Bulstrode was in the right to bring him forward.

Somehow, the Pilgrims saw their dire situation as a demonstration of providential power, especially after a giant wave picked up the flimsy boat of a scouting party on a stormy December night.

Conway could not imagine where they were all going, but it certainly seemed providential, as Miss Brinklow had said, that such a detachment should chance to be passing just there and then.