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- English Word Provexity Definition Great advance in age.
- English Word Provide Definition To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
- English Word Provide Definition To supply; to afford; to contribute.
- English Word Provide Definition To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
- English Word Provide Definition To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
- English Word Provide Definition To foresee.
- English Word Provide Definition To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
- English Word Provide Definition To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
- English Word Provide Definition To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
- English Word Provided Definition of Provide
- English Word Provided Definition On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.
- English Word Providence Definition The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
- English Word Providence Definition Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.
- English Word Providence Definition A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
- English Word Providence Definition Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.
- English Word Provident Definition 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.
- English Word Providential Definition Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.
- English Word Providently Definition In a provident manner.
- English Word Providentness Definition The quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.
- English Word Provider Definition One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
- English Word Providing Definition of Provide
- English Word Providore Definition One who makes provision; a purveyor.
- English Word Province Definition A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
- English Word Province Definition A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
- English Word Province Definition A region of country; a tract; a district.
- English Word Province Definition A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.
- English Word Province Definition The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
- English Word Province Definition Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.
- English Word Provincial Definition Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
- English Word Provincial Definition Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.