"providential" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin prōvidentia (“providence”) + -al.",
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          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 88:",
          "text": "The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes.",
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        "Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "heaven-sent"
        },
        {
          "word": "fortunate"
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        {
          "word": "lucky"
        },
        {
          "word": "serendipitous"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "providencia"
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        {
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "onnekas"
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        {
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "onnellinen"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "providentiel"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "provvidenziale"
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "gv",
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          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "ard-chiarailagh"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fortunate",
          "word": "providencial"
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    {
      "form": "more providential",
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    {
      "form": "most providential",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
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        "Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence."
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          "Providence",
          "Providence"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "providencia"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "onnekas"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "onnellinen"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "providentiel"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "provvidenziale"
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      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "ard-chiarailagh"
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      "sense": "fortunate",
      "word": "providencial"
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  "word": "providential"
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