Miraculous vs Providential - What's the difference?
miraculous | providential |
Pertaining to miracles; referring to something that people can't explain.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Moldova 0-5 England
, work=BBC Sport
By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god (only used when positive).
Pertaining to divine providence.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 88:
Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence; lucky.
As adjectives the difference between miraculous and providential
is that miraculous is pertaining to miracles; referring to something that people can't explain while providential is pertaining to divine providence.miraculous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.}}
providential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes.