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Purvey vs Providence - What's the difference?

purvey | providence |

As proper nouns the difference between purvey and providence

is that purvey is {{surname} while Providence is divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; fate.

As a verb purvey

is to prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.

As a noun providence is

preparation for the future; good governance, foresight.

purvey

English

Alternative forms

* puruey

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
  • *:
  • *:A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge
  • To furnish or provide.
  • *Spenser
  • *:Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey / Yourself of sword before that bloody day.
  • *2005 , Lesley Brown, trans. (Plato), Sophist , :
  • *:Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
  • To procure; to get.
  • *Sir Walter Scott
  • *:I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
  • providence

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Divine care or direction, the will of God or the gods; fate
  • Any of several cities named for this force, particularly the capital of the American state of Rhode Island