Prudentialist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 […]"
Example
More 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 […]"
Etymology
From prudential + -ist.
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