prudentialist
English edit
Etymology edit
prudential + -ist
Noun edit
prudentialist (plural prudentialists)
- One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives.
- 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:
- This is beautiful: yet I can not but think it would have been still more appropriate, if the water-pourer had been a Mr. Legality, a prudentialist offering his calculation of consequences as moral antidote to guilt and crime […]