Word Meanings - PRUDENTIALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. Coleridge.

Related words: (words related to PRUDENTIALIST)

• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• GOVERNING
  Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
• GOVERNANTE
  A governess. Sir W. Scott.
• GOVERNABILITY
  Governableness.
• PRUDENTIAL
  1. Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives. " A prudential line of conduct." Sir W. Scott.
• PRUDENTIALIST
  One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. Coleridge.
• PRUDENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being prudential. Sir T. Browne.
• GOVERNOR
  A pilot; a steersman. (more info) gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See 1. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of
• PRUDENTIALLY
  In a prudential manner; prudently. South.
• GOVERNESS
  A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
• GOVERNAL; GOVERNAIL
  Management; mastery. Chaucer. Spenser.
• GOVERN
  To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case. (more info) 1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct
• GOVERNOR GENERAL
  A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.
• GOVERNABLE
  Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• UNPRUDENTIAL
  Imprudent. "The most unwise and unprudential act." Milton.
• RELAY GOVERNOR
  A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle.
• JURISPRUDENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart.
• MISGOVERN
  To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.