prudential
[proo-den-shuh l]
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Origin of prudential
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Contemporary Examples
Messina walked into the empty offices in the Prudential building in March 2011 with a single box of personal items.
Instead, they fought by proxy, like cold war superpowers trapped inside the so-called Prudential building.
Eisenhower was a prudential, common sense Republican, who loathed extremism and arrogant ignorance.
Historical Examples
Impatient to glance behind, she only refrained for prudential reasons.
The StrollersFrederic S. Isham
These were prudential reasons, which he dilated on for some time.
Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I.Charles James Lever
Yet this was from no prudential resolve or temperate resolution.
The Young DukeBenjamin Disraeli
From a prudential penitence he had arrived at a genuine one.
In School and OutOliver Optic
So that to other motives of love he might add the prudential one of interest.
The Parisians, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
prudential
- characterized by or resulting from prudence
- exercising prudence or sound judgment
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Word Origin and History for prudential
adj.
mid-15c., from Medieval Latin prudentialis, from Latin prudentia "a foreseeing, foresight" (see prudence). Related: Prudentially. Prudential, the U.S. insurance company, dates to the 1870s; its logo featuring the Rock of Gibraltar dates from c.1900 and was widely known 20c.
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