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prudentialist

prudentialist noun: one who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.

Noun

prudentialist (plural prudentialists)

  1. 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 […]1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress

Forms of prudentialist

pluralprudentialists

Origin of prudentialist

From prudential + -ist.

Questions about prudentialist

What does prudentialist mean?
Prudentialist means one who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
What part of speech is prudentialist?
Prudentialist is a noun.
What is the plural of prudentialist?
The plural of prudentialist is prudentialists.

Words near prudentialist in the dictionary

  1. prudent man rules
  2. Prudente
  3. Prudentes
  4. prudential
  5. prudentialism
  6. prudentialist
  7. prudentialists
  8. prudentialities
  9. prudentiality
  10. prudentially
  11. prudentialness

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