All 11 Uses of
prudent
in
The Magic Mountain
- A great many noble and prudent minds have detested tobacco smoke.†
Chpt 3.4 *
- A forest of tall pines swallowed him, and wandering through it now, he even began to sing a little again, although more prudently—but as he descended his knees shook still more unsettlingly than before.†
Chpt 4.5prudently = with good sense and caution
- Behrens mentioned no dates—he's a prudent fellow and doesn't want to play the fortune-teller.†
Chpt 5.1
- "It is a very complex task," Herr Settembrini said, musing, "demanding much prudence and vast reading.†
Chpt 5.5prudence = good sense and caution
- There was an edgy quaver to his voice whenever he spoke, and he was not at all his old gentle, prudent self.†
Chpt 6.1
- It is at the very least my duty to point out to you as young people certain intellectual risks you run in associating with that man and to beg you, moreover, to keep your relations with him within certain prudent limits.†
Chpt 6.3
- At home he gave the impression of a very energetic, prudent, and—despite his elegance—cold, practical man of business; but when traveling in regions whose customs were strange to him, in the south of Germany, for instance, he was all too quick to be polite and self-effacing and assumed a certain impetuous amiability, which was in no way the result of insecurity about his own culture, but on the contrary reflected both an awareness of its solid integrity and a desire to improve on his own aristocratic tendencies—even amid customs he found simply incredible, he would show no surprise whatever.†
Chpt 6.5
- His actions were hardly those of a sportsman, because a sportsman is 3 man of caution, who gets involved with the elements only as long as he knows he is their lord and master and prudently yields when he must.†
Chpt 6.7prudently = with good sense and caution
- —when, in short, prudence is defied, even repudiated.†
Chpt 6.7prudence = good sense and caution
- The familiar blend of languor and excitement— which was the constant condition of a Berghof guest whose acclimatization consisted of his getting used to not getting used to things—had grown so strong in both component pans that it was no longer even a question of his taking prudent action against such attacks.†
Chpt 6.7
- His intentions had been of the most delicate, prudent sort—nothing even vaguely impetuous or awkward.†
Chpt 7.2
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.