provident

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

   • I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, Courage and hope both teaching him the practise, To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
2. 2

   Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid…

   Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it.

   • Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse, just in our charges, provident of our time, watchfull in our dutie, carefull of every word we speak.
   • Ah! poor man, he was always more generous than provident, or he would not have left his daughter dependent on his relations.
   • The Maroons, too, were much more provident of their ammunition than the troops were, seldom throwing a shot away ineffectually.
3. 3

   Providing (for someone’s needs).

   • These advantages [the soil] receives from the culture of seeds, exclusive of the rest and manure, which is scattered upon it by that most provident of all cattle, sheep […]
   • My clerk tells me they are weak from hunger—but this cannot be in such provident country, of rich tilth, when the very Hedgerows have been evidently dripping with fruit.

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