cardinal virtue
Example Sentences
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Within a year of each other, Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "Ricardian vice," which you mentioned earlier, and Milton Friedman launched his campaign to revive it as a cardinal virtue.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025
Doubt is a cardinal virtue in the sciences, which advance through skeptics’ willingness to question the experts.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2020
Truth was the cardinal virtue of Zoroastrianism, with lying being synonymous with evil.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
At Cravath, staying out of the media was a cardinal virtue.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2018
It deserves to be placed at the head of all the others, for it inculcates the cardinal virtue of childhood—obedience.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
