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ˈprovidently, adv.
[f. provident + -ly2.]
In a provident manner.
1. With foresight and providing care; prudently.
1487Rolls of Parlt. VI. 403/2 The Kyng..hath been besied..so that [neither] his Grace nor yet his moost Honorable Councill myght..provydently make Leesez [etc.]. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 74 Did he enuie them, or els did he prouidently forsee vnto them bothe, when he tooke theim bothe from vs. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 137 He prouidently foresaw in what danger the Oguzian state stood. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. Introd. ii. 51 Our laws might be providently made, and well executed, but they might not always have the good of the people in view. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 61 He brought first a clean handkerchief, which his bed-maker had providently supplied.
b. With economy that looks ahead; thriftily.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 228 The ant..more prouidently employing her paines then the grasshopper. 1607Stat. in Hist. Wakefield Gram. Sch. (1892) 57 Providentlie to lay out for the schole wants. 1641Epitaph in Hissey Holiday on Road (1887) 404 Prudently simple, providently wary, To the world a Martha, and to heaven a Mary. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. Prol., Providently to save Charges.
†2. = providentially adv. 2, 2 b. Obs.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 708 And also prouidently defeated their dangerous and almost ineuitable fire-works. 1681E. Murphy State Ireland §18 Providently one John Mackeevir going by.
So ˈprovidentness rare, the quality of being provident or foreseeing.
1727Bailey vol. II, Providentness, Thriftiness, Savingness. 1761Ascham's Wks., Toxoph. 83 Companions of shotinge, be providentness [earlier edd. prouidens], goode heede geving, true meetinge, honest comparison. |