Puritan vs Prudence - What's the difference?
puritan | prudence |
(often disapproving): acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex
The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
* 1876 , , Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay , J.B. Lippincott, page 597,
As nouns the difference between puritan and prudence
is that puritan is (often disapproving): a puritanical person while prudence is the quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.As an adjective puritan
is (often disapproving): acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.As a proper noun Prudence is
{{given name|female|from=English}}, one of the Puritan virtue names.puritan
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* puritanical * antisexualist * prude * erotophobe * genophobeprudence
Noun
(-)- Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, order, seasons, and method of doing or not doing. - .
- Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. - .