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Definition
sensible and careful
- The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.Part Two (17% in)
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 Two (17% in)
- 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 Two (48% in)
- Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.Part Five (53% in)
- Levin thought of the text, not because he considered himself "wise and prudent."Part Five (53% in)
- "I don't like to see such imprudence."Part Six (5% in)
There are no more uses of "prudent" flagged with this meaning in Anna Karenina.
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- But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already.Part Two (17% in)
There are no more uses of "prudent" in Anna Karenina.
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