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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 virtuesplay

  Familiarity information: CARDINAL VIRTUE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARDINAL VIRTUE (noun)


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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