prudentially, adv.
(pruːˈdɛnʃəlɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a prudential manner; in accordance with prudence; on prudential grounds.
| 1641 Ld. Digby Sp. 21 Apr. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 227 What is Prudentially and Politickly fit for the good and preservation of the whole. 1710 Strype Life Grindal i. vii. 71 This he ordered prudentially as well as piously. 1828 Southey in Q. Rev. XXXVII. 572 Marriages..when prudentially deferred. 1893 Gladstone in Westm. Gaz. 28 Sept. 5/2 The manifestation of the opinion may have been prudentially restrained. |