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单词 proviance
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proviancen.

Forms: late Middle English proviaunce; Scottish pre-1700 prouiance, pre-1700 prouience, pre-1700 pruwiance.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: purveyance n.
Etymology: Probably variant of purveyance n. (compare discussion at pro- prefix1, pur- prefix). Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French proveance provision, prudence, cautiousness (early 13th cent.), faculty of foreseeing or providing for the future (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier), variant of porveance , pourveance purveyance n.
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
Provision; providence.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > divine providence
the ways of GodeOE
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purveyinga1382
purveyancec1385
(God's, divine) foresighta1400
prudencec1425
proviancec1460
provisionc1460
pronoia1874
c1460 Abraham & Isaac in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 32 (MED) Siþ he haþ displesid me, I haue made proviaunce Þat anodre of his kynd shal plese me ayeyne.
c1480 (a1400) St. George 213 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 182 In þe tyme come a knycht..I treu, of goddis pruwiance—quhare þe maydine abad hir chance.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour iv. sig. Q.vi Thocht presentlye, be Goddis prouiance, Beistis, fowlis, and fyschis in the seis, Ar necessar, now, for mannis sustenance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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