natural virtue

noun

1. (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.

Example Sentences

Here Pope Francis invites us to see action on climate change as an opportunity to practice natural virtues like gratitude, care, and forgiveness.

From Time

But this colossal superstition weighs upon their very existence, crushing out even natural virtue.

From Project Gutenberg

He pours out his contempt on the Parisian philosophes who idealized primitive man and natural virtue.

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He has in him all the primary elements of natural virtue, the germ from which a noble creature can be developed.

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But God pays no heed to what is not done for his glory and is merely the outcome of purely natural virtue.

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It is this natural virtue which renders pussy so generally a favoured inmate of the household.

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