All 10 Uses
prudent
in
David Copperfield
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- Nor could I help thinking this a prudent course, since she looked at me out of the pickle-jar, with as great an access of sourness as if her black eyes had absorbed its contents.†
Chpt 10-12
- Great imprudence, Master Copperfield.†
Chpt 25-27imprudence = 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.
- 'I am bound to state to you,' he said, with an official air, 'that the business habits, and the prudent suggestions, of Mrs. Micawber, have in a great measure conduced to this result.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- 'It seems to us,' said she, 'prudent, Mr. Traddles, to bring these feelings to the test of our own observation.†
Chpt 40-42
- I was heartily tired of being sagacious and prudent by myself, and of seeing my darling under restraint; so I bought a pretty pair of ear-rings for her, and a collar for Jip, and went home one day to make myself agreeable.†
Chpt 46-48
- 'Or, if confiding anything to friends will be more likely to relieve you, you shall impart it to us, Mr. Micawber,' said Traddles, prudently.†
Chpt 49-51prudently = with good sense and caution
- Oh what a worthy man he is, Mister Copperfield, but how imprudent he has been!'†
Chpt 25-27imprudent = 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.
- 'So, Mr. Wickfield,' said I, at last, 'who is worth five hundred of you — or me'; for my life, I think, I could not have helped dividing that part of the sentence with an awkward jerk; 'has been imprudent, has he, Mr. Heep?'†
Chpt 25-27
- 'Oh, very imprudent indeed, Master Copperfield,' returned Uriah, sighing modestly.†
Chpt 25-27
- That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from — HEEP — and by — HEEP — fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries —gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.†
Chpt 52-54
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.