provident

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   providing carefully for the future

   Wild squirrels are provident.

2. 2
   adj

   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;.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

From Middle English provident, from Latin prōvidēns, prōvidentis, present participle of prōvideō (“to foresee; to be cautious; to provide”): compare French provident. By surface analysis, provide + -ent. Doublet of prudent.

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