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CARDINAL VIRTUES

Definition: CARDINAL VIRTUES

CARDINAL VIRTUES

1. See under Cardinal , a.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: CARDINAL VIRTUES

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Literature

Cardinal Virtues Justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude, on which all other virtues hang or depend. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CARDINAL VIRTUES

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Virtue

Morals; ethics; (duty); cardinal virtues.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: CARDINAL VIRTUES

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Books

  • Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction (2 Vols in 1) (reference)

  • The Cardinal Virtues (Eagle Large Print) (reference)

  • The Seven Cardinal Virtues (Mask Noir Series) (reference)

  • The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Cardinal Virtues: And, the Seven Cardinal Virtues (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CARDINAL VIRTUES

Illustrations:
CARDINAL VIRTUES

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Familiar Quotations: CARDINAL VIRTUES

AuthorQuotation

Thomas Hobbes

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: CARDINAL VIRTUES

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Gubernatrix cristata, Lobelia cardinalis L., Paroaria capitata, Paroaria coronata. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: CARDINAL VIRTUES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-r-r-s-t-u-v"

-3 letters: clairaudient, diverticular.

-4 letters: acetanilids, carnalities, cartularies, curvilinear, dilatancies, divaricates, diverticula, drivetrains, interracial, invalidates, irradiances, naturalised, transvalued, unclarities, unrealistic, vandalistic, ventricular, vernaculars, vulcanisate.

-5 letters: acetanilid, acidulates, alacrities, andalusite, anticaries, audacities, aviatrices, cinerarias, clavierist, curtailers, declarants, discarnate, distrainer, divaricate, drivetrain, incurvated, incurvates, indurative, industrial, interlards, invalidate, irradiance, irradiates, irridentas, lacustrine, larvicides, lentivirus, narratives, naturalise, naviculars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CARDINAL VIRTUES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 52 44 49 4E 41 4C      56 49 52 54 55 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010110 01001001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#86 &#73 &#82 &#84 &#85 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0052 0044 0049 004E 0041 004C      0056 0049 0052 0054 0055 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3735523843483546256435254553953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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