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prudent
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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"It would be more prudent," said Mistricolle.†
Chpt 1.4.1
Although he expected no resistance, he wished, like a prudent general, to preserve an order which would permit him to face, at need, a sudden attack of the watch or the police.†
Chpt 2.10.4 *
Thought, under the form of edifice, could have beheld itself burned in the public square by the hands of the executioner, in its manuscript form, if it had been sufficiently imprudent to risk itself thus; thought, as the door of a church, would have been a spectator of the punishment of thought as a book.†
Chpt 1.5.2

imprudent = unwise

standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudent means not and reverses the meaning of prudent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
This question, highly imprudent at the moment when Eustache put it, aroused Mahiette's attention.†
Chpt 1.6.3
But this image had no longer the same color; it was sombre, funereal, gloomy as the black circle which long pursues the vision of the imprudent man who has gazed intently at the sun.†
Chpt 2.8.4

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