单词 | cardinal virtues |
释义 | > as lemmascardinal virtues 1. In scholastic philosophy and traditional Christian moral theology originating from it: designating each of the four chief moral virtues, justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude (also called natural virtues); (sometimes more generally) each of seven chief virtues comprising these and the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity (cf. the ‘seven cardinal sins’ (see cardinal sin n. 1)). Now chiefly in cardinal virtues (with the): these virtues as a set.In early use frequently as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [noun] > cardinal virtues cardinal1340 society > morality > virtue > [noun] > a virtue > specific groups of > cardinal cardinal1340 head virtuea1400 cardinalc1450 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 124 Of þe uour uirtues cardinales spekeþ moche þe yealde philosofes..sleʒþe..temperance..strengþe..dom..þise uour uirtues byeþ y-cleped cardinals. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10008 Þas er four vertus principals, þe quilk man clepes cardinals..þat es rightwis[nes], and meth, For-sight, and strenght. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) l. 94 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 543 The fower vertues callid cardynall. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Diii The..vertues cardinall, with the vertues morall. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. i. 102 I thought ye..two reuerend Cardinall Vertues: But Cardinall Sins, and hollow hearts I feare ye. View more context for this quotation 1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 15 A Figure representing the 4 Cardinal Virtues, as having the Insignia of them all. 1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna 102 The seven cardinal virtues. 1927 Times 21 May 9/5 The four responds or half columns at the east and west end of the nave will represent the four cardinal virtues. 2000 C. Pinches in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 742/1 Finally, we need the highest of the cardinal virtues, prudence. < as lemmas |
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