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单词 prudentialist
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prudentialistn.

Brit. /prʊˈdɛnʃl̩ɪst/, /prʊˈdɛnʃəlɪst/, U.S. /pruˈdɛn(t)ʃələst/; see also prudential adj., adv., and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prudential adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < prudential adj. + -ist suffix. Compare later prudentialism n.
A person who is guided by, or acts from, prudential motives; an adherent of prudentialism.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [noun] > prudence > prudent person
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1649 J. Price Walwins Wiles 23 These are our prudentialists, our wise, moderate men.
1660 T. Pierce Impartial Inq. Nature Sin 29 I leave it to the Prudentialists to be deterr'd with such Mormo's, who dare be lazie and afraid to serve their God, and their Generation.
1693 J. Tutchin New Martyrol. 382 I wish that the Prudentialists of our Age, that have withdrawn their helping hand from so glorious a Design, do not within a few days feel the smart they have deserved by this their baseness.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 403 Mr. Legality, a prudentialist offering his calculation of consequences as the moral antidote to guilt and crime.
a1860 J. Younger Autobiogr. (1881) xxv. 318 The dogmas of starch prudentialists.
1969 Harvard Law Rev. 83 64 The prudentialist approves of judicial review because the Supreme Court can stand above politics and provide principled guidance for society.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 22 June 4 Moralists have a passion to make the crooked path of humanity straight; prudentialists to make the best of an inherently imperfect world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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