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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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 […]
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Prudentialist means One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives..
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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 […]
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