Prudentialist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Prudentialist is a noun meaning One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
Meaning
One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
Example Sentences
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 […]
Word Forms
- prudentialists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prudentialism, principlist, purposivist, providentialist, pragmatist, principalism.
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