cardinal virtue

collocation in English

meaningsofcardinalandvirtue

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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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(Definition ofcardinalandvirtuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He did, however, start off with the right credentials to become a major playwright: he considered disrespect for authority acardinalvirtue.
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Temperance is probably thecardinalvirtuemost strongly associated with dignity, although one has to bear in mind that it always combines with wisdom.
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At the same time, unbearable pain and extreme anxiety may undermine thecardinalvirtueof wisdom and thereby the associated cardinal virtues of courage, justice, and temperance.
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Our supremacy in thiscardinalvirtueof journalism has been established for more than a generation.
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That is thecardinalvirtueof politics.
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The strange feature of what happens today is that it should now be, for our masters, acardinalvirtue.
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A system which may or may not be more efficient but which is remote and impersonal removes thatcardinalvirtueand will ultimately breed alienation and discontent.
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His philosophy came from the ancients who considered discipline thecardinalvirtue.
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Would these not be the cardinal virtues as well as a sense of self-worth?
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The characteristics associated with the cardinal virtues can all be subsumed under dignity.
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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.
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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.
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Long regarded as one of the four cardinal virtues, temperance is typically associated with the problem of akrasia and the incontinent agent.
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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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