Both Uses of
prodigal
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scopes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd: And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.†
Scene 1.3
- I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows:
Scene 1.3 *prodigal = recklessly and extravagantly
Definition:
recklessly wasteful
or more rarely:
abundant (extravagant in amount)
or more rarely still:
long absent (someone who has been away a long time)
or more rarely:
abundant (extravagant in amount)
or more rarely still:
long absent (someone who has been away a long time)