All 13 Uses
prudent
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The House of Mirth
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- Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the same carefully-elaborated plan.†
Chpt 1.1imprudences = instances of lacking good sense and cautionstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudences means not and reverses the meaning of prudences. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
- There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.†
Chpt 1.1prudence = good sense and caution
- Every form of prudence and suspicion had been grafted on a nature originally reluctant and cautious, with the result that it would have seemed hardly needful for Mrs. Gryce to extract his promise about the overshoes, so little likely was he to hazard himself abroad in the rain.†
Chpt 1.2
- Once or twice of late she had won a large sum, and instead of keeping it against future losses, had spent it in dress or jewelry; and the desire to atone for this imprudence, combined with the increasing exhilaration of the game, drove her to risk higher stakes at each fresh venture.†
Chpt 1.3imprudence = 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.
- Mrs. Trenor's summons, however, suddenly recalled her state of dependence, and she rose and dressed in a mood of irritability that she was usually too prudent to indulge.†
Chpt 1.4
- He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.†
Chpt 1.4prudence = good sense and caution
- All her life Lily had seen money go out as quickly as it came in, and whatever theories she cultivated as to the prudence of setting aside a part of her gains, she had unhappily no saving vision of the risks of the opposite course.†
Chpt 1.10
- Mrs. Peniston's rare entertainments were preceded by days of heart-rending vacillation as to every detail of the feast, from the seating of the guests to the pattern of the table-cloth, and in the course of one of these preliminary discussions she had imprudently suggested to her cousin Grace that, as the dinner was a family affair, she might be included in it.†
Chpt 1.11imprudently = 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.
- Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent.†
Chpt 1.14
- Only, my dear, if you'll let me say so, I didn't understand that one of my negative duties was NOT to warn you when you carried your imprudence too far.†
Chpt 2.2imprudence = 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.
- Selden saw that for the moment all he could do was to ... offer sympathy and to counsel prudence.
Chpt 2.3 *prudence = good sense and caution
- But Miss Bart showed herself a less ready prey than might have been expected from her imprudent opening.†
Chpt 1.9imprudent = 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.
- "She hasn't sent in the bill for my winter things, but I KNOW it's large; and there are one or two other things; I've been careless and imprudent—I'm frightened to think of what I owe——" She raised the troubled loveliness of her face to Mrs. Peniston, vainly hoping that a sight so moving to the other sex might not be without effect upon her own.†
Chpt 1.15
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.