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cardinal virtues

plural noun

the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude

Some champions of immigration have become broad-minded enough to think small of the cardinal virtues.

Chief of the cardinal virtues is humility, a confession of our own helplessness and submission to God.

They see three of the great cardinal virtues of dog or mancourage, endurance, and skillin intense action.

Passive obedience and discipline are the cardinal virtues inculcated by the Hohenzollern.

Church and State both have set this propensity down among the great cardinal virtues.

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