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Prudentialist

Pru-den′tial-ist

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Noun.
One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
[R.]
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


prudentialist

prudentialist

English

Noun

prudentialist (plural prudentialists)

  1. One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      This is beautiful: yet I can not but think it would have been still more appropriate, if the water-pourer had been a Mr. Legality, a prudentialist offering his calculation of consequences as moral antidote to guilt and crime []