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John Adams, by McCullough
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Prudent, soft, sensible, obliging, active.†
Subsection 1.1.2
But Adams also wrote that he had "not in my nature prudence and caution enough" always to stand back.†
Subsection 1.2.2

prudence = good sense and caution
Prudence, he was fond of saying, "is a rascally virtue†
Subsection 1.3.1
"I know better than anybody what my constitution will bear and what it will not," he told Warren, "and you may depend upon it, I have already tempted it beyond prudence and safety.†
Subsection 1.3.2
One of the last letters he received before departure was from his admiring friend Benjamin Rush, who in his usual flowing, assured hand wrote that though he hated to see Adams go, he had every confidence in him: I am aware that your abilities and firmness are much wanted at the Court of France, and after all that has been said of the advantages of dressing, powdering, and bowing well as necessary accomplishments for an ambassador, I maintain that knowledge and integrity with a common share of prudence will outweigh them all......I am willing to risk the safety of our country upon this single proposition, that you will effectually "baffle and deceive them all by being perfectly honest."†
Subsection 2.4.1
His masterly acquaintance with the French language, his extensive correspondence in France, his great experience in life, his wisdom, his prudence, caution; his engaging addresses, united to his unshaken firmness in the present American system of politics and war, point him out as the fittest character for this momentous undertaking.†
Subsection 2.4.3
The only choice was to make for the nearest friendly port, for Spain, "with all the sail the ship could prudently bear."†
Subsection 2.5.1 *

prudently = with good sense and caution
In the meantime, _Adams was told, "It is the part of prudence to conceal your eventual character [as peacemaker] and, above all, to take the necessary precautions that the object of your commission remain unknown to the Court of London."†
Subsection 2.5.1

prudence = good sense and caution
The easiest, most prudent step for Vergennes would have been to let the matter of the dollar cool for a while.†
Subsection 2.5.1
"No [banking] house that I have as yet thought it prudent to apply to dares to undertake the trust," he told Congress.†
Subsection 2.5.2
Fair-haired, pleasing in appearance, she was taller than her mother, more circumspect, less inclined to voice an opinion, a "fine majestic girl who has as much dignity as a princess," in Abigail's description, though she wondered if Nabby was too reserved, too prudent.†
Subsection 2.6.1
She has stateliness in her manners which some misconstrue into pride and a haughtiness, but which rather results from too great reserve; she wants more affability, but she has prudence and discretion beyond her years.†
Subsection 2.6.1

prudence = good sense and caution
Had not her Mamma at her age too much sensibility to be very prudent.†
Subsection 2.6.1
I don't know what it means......My child is a model, as you represent her and as I know her, and is not to be the prize, I hope, of any reformed rake......In the name of all that is tender don't criticize your daughter for those qualities which are her greatest glory, her reserve and her prudence.†
Subsection 2.6.1

prudence = good sense and caution
Though they very prudently speak in a whisper, so that only the person who stands next can hear what is said......The Lord in Waiting presents you to the King and the Lady in Waiting does the same to Her Majesty.†
Subsection 2.7.1

prudently = with good sense and caution
"His character is not only fair and unblemished," she informed John Quincy, "[but] at age 21 he commanded a regiment, and through the whole war conducted with prudence and bravery and intrepidity, when armed against the foe."†
Subsection 2.7.3

prudence = good sense and caution
I have often thought he has more prudence at 27 than his father at 58.†
Subsection 3.8.4
It is universally admitted that Mr. Adams is a man of incorruptible integrity, and that the resources of his own mind are equal to the duties of his station; we may flatter ourselves that his measures will be taken with prudence, that he will not become the head of a party, and that he will not be the tool of any man or set of men.†
Subsection 3.9.1
I forget that it must grow cautious and prudent.†
Subsection 3.9.1
Benjamin Bache turned with a fury on the President he had so recently lauded as a prudent, high-minded man of integrity.†
Subsection 3.9.2
In the Aurora, Margaret Bache and her new editor, William Duane, would concede only that Adams deserved "fair applause" for prudence.†
Subsection 3.10.2

prudence = good sense and caution
In reply, he advised prudent preparations for war, in the event of another rebuff.†
Subsection 3.10.5
We cannot, without committing a dangerous imprudence, abandon those measures of self-protection which are adapted to our situation, and to which, notwithstanding our pacific policy, the violence of injustice of others may again compel us to resort.†
Subsection 3.10.5

imprudence = the quality of lacking good sense and caution

standard 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.
It had seemed an entirely prudent step.†
Subsection 3.11.1
"If ever a nation was guilty of imprudence, ours has been so in making a naval force and marine preparations unpopular," Adams wrote to Rush.†
Subsection 3.11.3

imprudence = the quality of lacking good sense and caution

standard 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.
While, on the one hand, the activity of her mind, and its thorough knowledge of all branches of domestic economy, enabled her almost wholly to relieve him from the caresincident to the concerns of private life; on the other, she was a friend whom it was his delight to consult in every perplexity of public affairs; and whose counsels never failed to partake of that happy harmony which prevailed in her character; in which intuitive judgment was blended with consummate prudence; the spirit of conciliation, with the spirit of her station, and the refinement of her sex.†
Subsection 3.12.2

prudence = good sense and caution
This stone and several others [it read] have been placed in this yard by a great, great, grandson from a veneration of the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence, frugality, industry and perseverance of his ancestors in hopes of recommending an affirmation of their virtues to their posterity.†
Subsection 3.12.5
Not an imprudent, not an indelicate, not a disagreeable word of action.†
Subsection 1.1.2

imprudent = unwise

standard 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.
Strongly allied with those in Congress who were well disposed toward the French, Livingston regarded Adams as imprudent and considered his April 19 memorial to the Dutch Court "a ridiculous display."†
Subsection 2.5.2

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(1) (prudent)
sensible and careful
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Prudence is also a female name.

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