Usually means: Fundamental principles for moral goodness.
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  1. cardinal virtue: Merriam-Webster
  2. cardinal virtue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cardinal virtue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  12. cardinal virtue: Wiktionary

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noun:  (Christianity, often in the plural) One of the four foundational virtues identified by Greek and Christian philosophers, on which other virtues depend: justice, temperance, prudence, or fortitude.

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