All 3 Uses of
prudent
in
Paradise Lost
- Thus saying, rose The Monarch, and prevented all reply; Prudent lest, from his resolution raised, Others among the chief might offer now, Certain to be refused, what erst they feared, And, so refused, might in opinion stand His rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn.†
Book 2
- so steers the prudent crane†
Book 7 *
- These are the product Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest; Where good with bad were matched, who of themselves Abhor to join; and, by imprudence mixed, Produce prodigious births of body or mind.†
Book 11
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful