All 6 Uses
prudent
in
Billy Budd
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- He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.†
Chpt 1prudence = good sense and caution
- Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.†
Chpt 4
- An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.†
Chpt 13
- Long experience had very likely brought this old man to that bitter prudence which never interferes in aught and never gives advice.†
Chpt 15
- Disturbed by the excited manner he had never before observed in the Indomitable's Captain, and as yet wholly ignorant of the affair, the prudent Surgeon nevertheless held his peace, only again looking an earnest interrogation as to what it was that had resulted in such a tragedy.†
Chpt 19 *
- For it was close on the heel of the suppressed insurrections, an aftertime very critical to naval authority, demanding from every English sea-commander two qualities not readily interfusable—prudence and rigour.†
Chpt 21prudence = good sense and caution
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.