improvidence
- a word derived from improvident.
Example Sentences
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Improvidence, and misrule, which had been working and growing for hundreds of years, had at last brought the famine fever, and even the righteous must perish by it.
From Sermons on National Subjects by Kingsley, Charles
Improvidence ought as much as possible to be discouraged; for, with those who labour hard and are indigent, the desire to gratify some pressing want, or present appetite, is continually uppermost.
From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William
Improvidence and a hopeless leaning toward extravagance were certainly unforgivable blemishes in the character of a young man in the position she believed Lawford held.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.
Improvidence seems to be one of the most incorrigible of faults.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
Rose-gardens 78 Of Improvidence in Marriage in the Middle Classes; nd of the advisable Restrictions of it.
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John
