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prudent
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Pride and Prejudice
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- A man of honor could not have doubted the intention, but Mr. Darcy chose to doubt it—or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence—in short anything or nothing.†
p. 78.5imprudence = 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.
- Consider Mr. Collins's respectability, and Charlotte's steady, prudent character.†
p. 133.4
- You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavor to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.†
p. 133.7prudence = good sense and caution
- Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.†
p. 140.6imprudence = 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 see the imprudence of it.†
p. 142.9
- Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive?
p. 151.2 *prudent = practical or sensible
- She seems perfectly happy, however, and in a prudential light it is certainly a very good match for her.†
p. 174.7prudential = arising from or characterized by being sensible and careful
- She was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself.†
p. 196.7imprudence = 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.
- Elizabeth had frequently united with Jane in an endeavor to check the imprudence of Catherine and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother's indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement?†
p. 206.9
- But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.†
p. 219.1prudence = good sense and caution
- But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly of their vice.†
p. 228.4imprudence = 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.
- Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility: "Pray, Miss Eliza, are not the ——shire Militia removed from Meryton?†
p. 257.3
- Though her brother and sister were persuaded that there was no real occasion for such a seclusion from the family, they did not attempt to oppose it, for they knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that one only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject.†
p. 274.4prudence = good sense and caution
- Their mutual affection will steady them; and I flatter myself they will settle so quietly, and live in so rational a manner, as may in time make their past imprudence forgotten.†
p. 289.1imprudence = 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.
- He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, where they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent.†
p. 296.7
- His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him.†
p. 307.9prudently = with good sense and caution
- Her prudent mother, occupied by the same ideas, forbore to invite him to sit by herself.†
p. 321.2
- Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be unpardonable in me.†
p. 329.5imprudence = 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.
- Because honor, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it.†
p. 336.5prudence = good sense and caution
- I am afraid he has been very imprudent, and has deserved to lose Mr. Darcy's regard.†
p. 94.4imprudent = 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.
- Do not involve yourself or endeavor to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent.†
p. 142.3
- Last Christmas you were afraid of his marrying me, because it would be imprudent; and now, because he is trying to get a girl with only ten thousand pounds, you want to find out that he is mercenary.†
p. 151.2
- What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.†
p. 181.2
- "And Mary King is safe!" added Elizabeth; "safe from a connection imprudent as to fortune."†
p. 212.6
- She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia's general behavior, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.†
p. 222.8
- "If you were aware," said Elizabeth, "of the very great disadvantage to us all which must arise from the public notice of Lydia's unguarded and imprudent manner—nay, which has already arisen from it, I am sure you would judge differently in the affair."†
p. 223.1
- So imprudent a match on both sides!†
p. 260.9
- Imprudent as the marriage between Mr. Wickham and our poor Lydia would be, we are now anxious to be assured it has taken place, for there is but too much reason to fear they are not gone to Scotland.†
p. 261.6
- My father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt how imprudent a match it must be.†
p. 276.1
- He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant.†
p. 276.4
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.