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prudentialist

noun

Etymology

From prudential + -ist.

Definitions

  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 […]

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