prudentialist en · NOUN
Etymology
From prudential + -ist.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| prudentialists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |