Providence vs. Fate
Providence and Fate Definitions
Providence
Care or preparation in advance; foresight.
Fate
The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events
Fate did not favor his career.
Providence
Prudent management; economy.
Fate
The inevitable events predestined by this force
It was her fate to marry a lout.
Providence
The care, guardianship, and control exercised by a deity; divine direction
"Some sought the key to history in the working of divine providence" (William Ebenstein).
Fate
A final result or consequence; an outcome
What was the fate of your project?.
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Providence
Providence God.
Fate
An unfavorable outcome in life; doom or death
Suffered a fate worse than death.
The island where the explorer met his fate.
Providence
Preparation for the future; good governance, foresight.
Fate
Fates Greek & Roman Mythology The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who control human destiny. Used with the.
Providence
The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature etc.).
Fate
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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Providence
A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
Fate
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Providence
Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
His providence in saving for his old age is exemplary.
Fate
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
Providence
The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
Providence for war is the best prevention of it.
Fate
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Accept your fate.
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Providence
Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.
The world was all before them, where to chooseTheir place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Fate
(mythology) Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
Providence
A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.
He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God.
Fate
(biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
Providence
Prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.
It is a high point of providence in a prince to cast an eye rather upon actions than persons.
Fate
(embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
Providence
The capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University
Fate
(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
Providence
The guardianship and control exercised by a deity;
Divine providence
Fate
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Necessity and chanceApproach not me; and what I will is fate.
Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments.
Providence
A manifestation of God's foresightful care for His creatures
Fate
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
The great, th'important day, big with the fateOf Cato and of Rome.
Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown.
The whizzing arrow sings,And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.
Providence
The prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
Fate
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams.
Fate
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Fate
An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Fate
The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);
We are helpless in the face of Destiny
Fate
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
Whatever my fortune may be
Deserved a better fate
Has a happy lot
The luck of the Irish
A victim of circumstances
Success that was her portion
Fate
Decree or designate beforehand;
She was destined to become a great pianist
