Synonyms

natural virtues

British

plural noun

(esp among the scholastics) those virtues of which man is capable without direct help from God, specifically justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude Compare theological virtues

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The Moon has many interesting natural virtues for scientific and commercial opportunity.

From Forbes

Only liberate money motives from the world by giving everyone the same, and imagine how people's "natural virtues" would be set free from "trade union and governing class corruption and tyranny".

From The Guardian

The Divine hand was stayed, or rather, as St. Augustine says, an unsurpassed natural greatness was the reward of certain natural virtues, degraded as they were in unnatural abominations.

From Project Gutenberg

I mean no natural virtue, because all the natural virtues existed and had been practiced by hundreds and thousands of millions before Christ was born.

From Project Gutenberg

The natural virtues are gratuitous gifts of God.

From Project Gutenberg

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