0 happening exactly when needed but without being planned:
a providential opportunity
That she did so without surrendering the authority of a providential intention at work in her test strikes me as necessarily conservative in conviction and as brilliantly radical in form.
American antislavery advocates were also impressed by the rapidity of this process, which they took as evidence of the providential progress of mankind in their time.
Prosperity offered hints of providential favor - how you fared here was a pretty good indicator of how you would fare in the hereafter.
In place of this providential system, the eighteenth century provided a new world of sociability, politeness, reading, and commercial credit.
The timing of physical death was uncertain and its cause providential.
At the risk of over-simplifying, we may observe that providential control may be active or passive.
The khubz-iste individual is quietist; the khubz-iste state is providential.
They see in it a force for good that works like a providential mechanism for the benefit of human kind.
