All 8 Uses
prudent
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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- Burke had exhausted all his eloquence in trying to induce the British Government to fight the revolutionary government of France, but Mr. Pitt, with characteristic prudence, did not feel that this country was fit yet to embark on another arduous and costly war.†
Chpt 3prudence = good sense and caution
- But you WILL be prudent?" she added earnestly.†
Chpt 7
- Armand knew that: her impulses and imprudence, knew it still better; but Blakeney was slow-witted, he would not listen to "circumstances," he only clung to facts, and these had shown him Lady Blakeney denouncing a fellow man to a tribunal that knew no pardon: and the contempt he would feel for the deed she had done, however unwittingly, would kill that same love in him, in which sympathy and intellectuality could never had a part.†
Chpt 7imprudence = the quality of lacking good sense and cautionstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudence means not and reverses the meaning of prudence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
- Two days ago the DAY DREAM had returned from Calais, bringing her news that her idolised brother had safely landed, that he thought of her, and would be prudent for her sake.†
Chpt 10
- But if he were warned, he might form new plans, be more wary, more prudent.†
Chpt 19 *
- ...Had Armand been imprudent?†
Chpt 10imprudent = unwisestandard 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.
- That letter of Armand's—foolish, imprudent Armand—was in Chauvelin's hands.†
Chpt 10
- I promise you that the day the Scarlet Pimpernel and I start for France, I will send you that imprudent letter of his by special courier.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(prudent) sensible and careful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Prudence is also a female name.