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prudentialists

prudentialists is the plural of prudentialist.

Meaning of prudentialist

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

Questions about prudentialists

What is prudentialists the plural of?
Prudentialists is the plural of prudentialist.

Words near prudentialists in the dictionary

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

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