All 7 Uses of
prudent
in
Anna Karenina
- The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.
Part 2 *prudence = good sense and caution
- "Yes, but then how often the happiness of these prudent marriages flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they have refused to recognize," said Vronsky.†
Part 2
- But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already.†
Part 2prudence = good sense and caution
- She was vexed, too, that from all she could learn of this connection it was not that brilliant, graceful, worldly liaison which she would have welcomed, but a sort of Wertherish, desperate passion, so she was told, which might well lead him into imprudence.†
Part 2imprudence = 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.
- Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.†
Part 5
- Levin thought of the text, not because he considered himself "wise and prudent."†
Part 5
- I don't like to see such imprudence.†
Part 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.
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.