All 12 Uses of
prudent
in
Middlemarch
- Elinor used to tell her sisters that she married me for my ugliness—it was so various and amusing that it had quite conquered her prudence.†
Chpt 1prudence = good sense and caution
- I must remind you that it is not your own prudence or judgment that has enabled you to keep your place in the trade.†
Chpt 2
- She had been magnanimous enough to renounce all pride in teapots or children's frilling, and had never poured any pathetic confidences into the ears of her feminine neighbors concerning Mr. Garth's want of prudence and the sums he might have had if he had been like other men.†
Chpt 3
- He did not share her warm interest, however; and only spoke with resignation of the risks attendant on the beginning of medical practice and the desirability of prudence.†
Chpt 4
- Not without prudential considerations, however.†
Chpt 4prudential = arising from or characterized by being sensible and careful
- "I have no power of prophecy there," said Mr. Farebrother, who had been puffing at his pipe thoughtfully while Lydgate talked; "but as to the hostility in the town, you'll weather it if you are prudent."†
Chpt 5
- "How am I to be prudent?" said Lydgate, "I just do what comes before me to do.†
Chpt 5
- This sociability seemed a necessary part of professional prudence, and the entertainment must be suitable.†
Chpt 6 *prudence = good sense and caution
- There seemed to be no use in implying that somebody's ignorance or imprudence had killed him.†
Chpt 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.
- Mr. Brooke nodded, saying, "Yes; to Ladislaw," and then fell into a prudential silence.†
Chpt 8prudential = arising from or characterized by being sensible and careful
- Mrs. Casaubon may be acting imprudently: she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.†
Chpt 8imprudently = in a manner that lacks good sense and cautionstandard 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.
- Should you call it bad news to be told that you were to live at Stone Court, and manage the farm, and be remarkably prudent, and save money every year till all the stock and furniture were your own, and you were a distinguished agricultural character, as Mr. Borthrop Trumbull says—rather stout, I fear, and with the Greek and Latin sadly weather-worn?†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(prudent) sensible and careful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Prudence is also a female name.