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If you are provident, you look ahead and take care, especially with money. You save for later. You do not spend everything today. It is a quiet, grown-up kind of careful — closer to sensible than to afraid. You mostly meet it in formal writing, in older books, and in names like a provident fund (a savings plan for later life). In ordinary conversation people more often say careful with money or good at saving. Though actually, it is not the same as Providence, the religious idea: provident is about your planning, not God’s. It is also a close old cousin of prudent. They are not one word, but they grew from related Latin, and prudent is the one you will hear more.
組成From Latin prōvidēns, “seeing ahead,” from prōvideō. In English it looks like provide + -ent. It is a doublet of prudent: two words that split from related Latin, not copies of each other.
同家族的字
- providesame Latin root: make ready because you can see what is coming
- providencethe noun for looking ahead; later also God’s care
- prudentan old doublet: related Latin, same idea of caution, different English word
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
providentadj/ˈpɹɒvɪdənt/
- 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;
- Since then that all kinde of Gaming serues but as gulphes to deuoure the substances of men, and to swallow them vp in beggerie, my counsell is vtterly either to refraine such pastimes, or if men are of such spirits that they must needes venture their money, then to be very prouident how they play, and to be choise of their company.
- 2
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.
- 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。