OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 40096

provident

/ˈpɹɒvɪdənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
providente • próvido
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 pasti…