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Dec 1, 2009
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car'dinal trait'



Psychol.
a basic and dominant characteristic, as greed or ambition, that, according to a theory developed by psychologist Gordon Allport (1936), controls the behavior of many people.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

cardinal tetracardinal virtue
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