Both Uses of
prudent
in
Hard Times
- He had grown into an extremely clear-headed, cautious, prudent young man, who was safe to rise in the world.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- CHAPTER IX — HEARING THE LAST OF IT MRS. SPARSIT, lying by to recover the tone of her nerves in Mr. Bounderby's retreat, kept such a sharp look-out, night and day, under her Coriolanian eyebrows, that her eyes, like a couple of lighthouses on an iron-bound coast, might have warned all prudent mariners from that bold rock her Roman nose and the dark and craggy region in its neighbourhood, but for the placidity of her manner.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful