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cardinal virtue

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meanings of cardinaland virtue


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cardinal
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈkɑː.dɪ.nəl/ us /ˈkɑːr.dɪ.nəl/
of ...
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virtue
noun
uk /ˈvɜː.tʃuː/ us /ˈvɝː.tʃuː/
a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being ...
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Examples of cardinal virtue


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He did, however, start off with the right credentials to become a major playwright: he considered disrespect for authority a cardinalvirtue.
Temperance is probably the cardinalvirtue most strongly associated with dignity, although one has to bear in mind that it always combines with wisdom.
At the same time, unbearable pain and extreme anxiety may undermine the cardinalvirtue of wisdom and thereby the associated cardinal virtues of courage, justice, and temperance.
Our supremacy in this cardinalvirtue of journalism has been established for more than a generation.
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That is the cardinalvirtue of politics.
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The strange feature of what happens today is that it should now be, for our masters, a cardinalvirtue.
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A system which may or may not be more efficient but which is remote and impersonal removes that cardinalvirtue and will ultimately breed alienation and discontent.
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His philosophy came from the ancients who considered discipline the cardinalvirtue.
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Would these not be the cardinal virtues as well as a sense of self-worth?
The characteristics associated with the cardinal virtues can all be subsumed under dignity.
It was already indicated above that wisdom is required to display all other cardinal virtues and this example illustrates the point with regard to courage.
Following the convention of humanist moral philosophy the promotional authors portrayed colonization in terms of a division of the four cardinal virtues : wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance.
Long regarded as one of the four cardinal virtues, temperance is typically associated with the problem of akrasia and the incontinent agent.
She has set out budgetary discipline as being, for her, one of the cardinal virtues.
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They represent the four cardinal virtues: truth, justice, peace and mercy.
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Galsworthy writes in the style of great morality plays, and simply clothes the great cardinal virtues and vices, instead of giving us living men and women of flesh and blood.
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Supporting the four corners of the tomb are statues representing the cardinal virtues.
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These four cardinal virtues express humankind's four inherent elements of spirit, action, conscience, and intellect.
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True women were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
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The cardinal virtues are natural and revealed in nature, and they are binding on everyone.
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