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Meaning of prudentialist | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

prudentiality Prudentially prudentialness Prudently Pruderies Prudery