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CARDINAL VIRTUE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cardinal virtue mean?
• CARDINAL VIRTUE (noun)
The noun CARDINAL VIRTUE has 1 sense:
1. one of the seven preeminent virtues
Familiarity information: CARDINAL VIRTUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the seven preeminent virtues
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("cardinal virtue" is a kind of...):
virtue (a particular moral excellence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardinal virtue"):
natural virtue ((scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature)
supernatural virtue; theological virtue (according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues)
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