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Natural virtue   /nˈætʃərəl vˈərtʃu/   Listen
Natural virtue

noun
1.
(scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature.





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"Natural virtue" Quotes from Famous Books



... years of scorn for theft, twenty years in which her pocket had not held back a sou from her employers, twenty years of indifference to gain, twenty years in which temptation had never come near her, her long maintained and natural virtue, mademoiselle's confidence in her—all these things came to her mind in a single instant. Her youthful years clung to her and took possession of her. From her family, from the memory of her parents, from the unsullied reputation of her wretched ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt


Words linked to "Natural virtue" :   justness, cardinal virtue, fortitude, prudence, scholasticism, temperance, moderation, justice


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