prudentialist

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounprudentialist (plural prudentialists)

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

Origin

From prudential + -ist.

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APA

prudentialist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prudentialist

MLA

“prudentialist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prudentialist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prudentialist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prudentialist.

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