PRUDENTIALIST

Etymology

Noun

prudentialist (plural prudentialists)

One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.

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 […]

Source: Wiktionary


Pru*den"tial*ist, n.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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