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  • remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence,  (source)
    prudence = good sense and caution
  • Did he respond prudently, or did he allow his stupidity to sink himself deeper into the mire?  (source)
    prudently = with good sense and caution
  • Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence.  (source)
    prudence = good sense
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  • We must exercise prudence.  (source)
    prudence = care and good sense
  • it seemed prudent to do everything legally.  (source)
    prudent = sensible and cautious
  • This incident gives zest to our investigation, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her.†  (source)
    imprudence = the quality of lacking good sense and caution
    standard 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.
  • She was now prudently making cute kitchen curtains,  (source)
    prudently = carefully
  • The Prudential Insurance people wanted to locate their regional headquarters here in the nineteen-fifties.†  (source)
    Prudential = arising from or characterized by being sensible and careful
  • Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and started for the Temple to see my husband.†  (source)
    imprudently = in a manner that lacks good sense and caution
    standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudently means not and reverses the meaning of prudently. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
  • He had come to America with letters of recommendation from old Mrs. Manson Mingott's English son-in-law, the banker, and had speedily made himself an important position in the world of affairs; but his habits were dissipated, his tongue was bitter, his antecedents were mysterious; and when Medora Manson announced her cousin's engagement to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor Medora's long record of imprudences.†  (source)
    imprudences = instances of lacking good sense and caution
    standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudences means not and reverses the meaning of prudences. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
  • There could be no other accounting for the confidence with which Messala pushed his four forward the instant his competitors were prudentially checking their fours in front of the obstruction—no other except madness.†  (source)
    prudentially = with good sense and caution
  • Resolutions, reticences, prudences, fears, fell back like a defeated battalion.†  (source)
  • Isn't Prudence one of the virtues?  (source)
    Prudence = good sense and caution
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