What's the difference between providence and providential?

Providence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
  • (n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.
  • (n.) A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
  • (n.) Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
  • (5) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
  • (6) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
  • (7) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (8) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (9) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
  • (10) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (11) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (12) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (13) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (14) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (15) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (16) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
  • (17) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (18) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
  • (19) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
  • (20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.

Providential


Definition:

  • (a.) Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And thus, with regard to the human process of self-discovery in the natural world, medicine plays a decisive role--for providential nature displays herself most clearly in the production of healing substances.
  • (2) In the light of the repeated, politically unacceptable demands for Megrahi's release from Gaddafi, the illness at first seemed providential for Britain.
  • (3) "That we deplore the Irish policy of Mr. Gladstone, foreseeing that if carried out it will be the deathblow to the prosperity of Ireland, and a signal for the renewal of those scenes of anarchy and bloodshed from which we were providentially delivered by William III and the heirs of his principles."
  • (4) With the severe shortage of Western psychiatrists who are prepared to undertake this work, it is providential that black traditional healers address themselves to the latter group of mental abnormalities with a measure of success comparable to psychotherapy in First-World practice.
  • (5) The fact that he does not have the bluster, charisma and showmanship that the French expect from their "providential" leader may, however, work in Hollande's favour.
  • (6) Providentially, now that parliament is in recess, they have time to help by visiting their local food bank – there is bound to be one nearby.
  • (7) The "providential" double ureter made it possible to combine excision of the pathological ureter with a termino-lateral anastomosis between the lower renal pelvis and the ureter of the upper renal pelvis.
  • (8) For example, the onset of ninus with its multiple and important consequences, the indirect interaction of the fetus in the birth process throught the amniotic liquid which is its ring-like annex, the internal and external rotating mechanism of fetal presentation, and above all the providential protective or self-protective action of the fetus during the process of birth.
  • (9) Vena cava is a providential material for the transplant surgeon.

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