Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who acts from or is governed by prudential motives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
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- noun One who is governed by, or acts from,
prudential motives .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is beautiful; yet I cannot but think it would have been still more appropriate, if the waterpourer had been a Mr. Legality, a prudentialist offering his calculation of consequences as the moral antidote to guilt and crime; and if the oil-instillator, out of sight and from within, had represented the corrupt nature of man, that is, the spiritual will corrupted by taking up a nature into itself.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Clayton, because DC doesn’t win on an originalist or textualist interpretation of the Second Amendment, they need to focus on their best argument, which is a prudentialist argument that emphasizes current and future policy considerations.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Significant Developments in DC Case on Handgun and Self-Defense Bans: 2007
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