Crossword-Solution: PROVIDENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Provident | a. | Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PROVIDENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Thoughtful of the future. | 1 answer |
| Happening by chance and a favourable time | 1 answer |
| Forward-thinking, in a way | 1 answer |
| EXERCISING foresight | 1 answer |
| Farsighted | 7 answers |
| Platonic | 14 answers |
| Philosophical | 16 answers |
| Spartan | 30 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| pensive | 54 answers |
| Mindful | 64 answers |
| Economical | 64 answers |
| foreseeing | 65 answers |
| Sensible | 67 answers |
| Deliberate | 72 answers |
| Guarded | 73 answers |
| Practical | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROVIDENT (5)
Shalt thou give Law to God, shalt thou dispute With him the points of libertie, who made Thee what thou art, & formd the Pow’rs of Heav’n Such as he pleasd, and circumscrib’d thir being? Yet by experience taught we know how good, And of our good, and of our dignitie How provident he is, how farr from thought To make us less, bent rather to exalt Our happie state under one Head more neer United.
Higginson’s congratulatory eloquence, this appeared to be the one thing which Colonel Pyncheon, provident and sagacious as he was, had allowed to go at loose ends.
Again: those nobles who had seen the coming storm in time, and anticipating plunder or confiscation, had made provident remittances to Tellson’s, were always to be heard of there by their needy brethren.
But she soon saw how likely it was that Lucy, in her self-provident care, in her haste to secure him, should overlook every thing but the risk of delay.
Like a provident negro, having stowed away all his trappings, he appeared as a roustabout on a Western steamer.
Quotes with PROVIDENT (3)
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subject, I did not consider it advisable to dwell, for the details of what I had undergone belonged to a portion of my existence in which I never expected my godmother to take a share. Into what a new region would such a confidence have led that hale, serene nature! The difference between her and me might be figured by that between t…
I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for some years head of pediatrics at Provident, the nation's oldest black hospital. My mother was a social worker who left her job when she married, and throughout my childhood, she was a full-time wife, mother, and socialite.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1956–2011).