cardinal virtue

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   one of the seven preeminent virtues

   Broadervirtue

   Narrowernatural virtuetheological virtue

Questions about cardinal virtue

What does cardinal virtue mean?

cardinal virtue means "one of the seven preeminent virtues".

Is cardinal virtue a common word?

cardinal virtue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.