only 1 use
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
sensible and careful
- In Jane Austen's Persuasion I had come across the lines, "she had been forced into prudence in her youth—she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning."p. 22.7
There are no more uses of "prudent" in Running in the Family.
Typical Usage
(best examples)