natural virtue

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Instead of following the rigid training and rituals required by Confucius, they sought to liberate the natural virtue within.

From New York Times

The Moon has many interesting natural virtues for scientific and commercial opportunity.

From Forbes

Only liberate money motives from the world by giving everyone the same, and imagine how people's "natural virtues" would be set free from "trade union and governing class corruption and tyranny".

From The Guardian

His martyrdom, 441 Juvenal, on the natural virtue of man, i.

From Project Gutenberg

The Divine hand was stayed, or rather, as St. Augustine says, an unsurpassed natural greatness was the reward of certain natural virtues, degraded as they were in unnatural abominations.

From Project Gutenberg