natural virtue

noun

(especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.

Compare theological virtue.

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

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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