Collocations withvirtue
These are words often used in combination withvirtue.
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cardinal virtue
He did, however, start off with the right credentials to become a major playwright: he considered disrespect for authority a cardinal virtue.
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chief virtue
This, indeed, is the chief virtue of the book under review.
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civic virtue
In the process, interesting ideas on accountability, transparency and civic virtue are getting under the wire.
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greatest virtue
His greatest virtue is that when he lectures he shows you how he does research.
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intellectual virtue
Is an intellectual virtue that always yields true beliefs equivalent to a knowledge engine?
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moral virtue
Natural philosophy was supposed to lead to moral virtue, to modesty and religious reverence.
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paragon of virtue
He claimed that every man who works for a direct labour organisation is a paragon of virtue.
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theological virtue
We can strengthen this last claim in particular by showing how faith, qua theological virtue, is related to the two other theological virtues, hope and love.
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virtue ethics
This is not to say that virtue ethics faces any peculiar problem of demandingness.
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