prudentialist

noun

prudentialist

noun

Etymology From prudential + -ist.

1

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

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 […]1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:

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