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Webster 1913 Edition
Prudentialist
Pru-den′tial-ist
,Noun.
One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
[R.]
Coleridge.
Definition 2024
prudentialist
prudentialist
English
Noun
prudentialist (plural prudentialists)
- 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 […]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge