Virtue

Word VIRTUE
Character 6
Hyphenation vir tue
Pronunciations /-tjuː/

Definitions and meanings of "Virtue"

What do we mean by virtue?

Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness. noun

An example or kind of moral excellence. noun

Chastity, especially in a woman. noun

A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage. noun

Effective force or power. noun

The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology. noun

Manly courage; valor. noun

(by/in) On the grounds or basis of; by reason of. idiom

Manly spirit; bravery; valor; daring; courage. noun

Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the conformity of life and conversation to the moral law; uprightness; rectitude; morality: the opposite of vice. noun

A particular moral excellence: as, the virtue of temperance or of charity. noun

Specifically, female purity; chastity. noun

Any good quality, merit, or admirable faculty. noun

An inherent power; a property capable of producing certain effects; strength; force; potency; efficacy; influence, especially active influence, and often medicinal efficacy. noun

One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. The virtues are often represented in art as angels in complete armor, bearing pennons and battle-axes. noun

A mighty work; a miracle. noun

Synonyms Morals, Ethics, etc. (see morality); probity, integrity, rectitude, worth. noun

Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. noun

Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy. noun

Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.

A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.

Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.

An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.

A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.

Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.

The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.

The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).

Moral goodness; admirable quality Urban Dictionary

Something, someone, or an action having good morality standard, pure (in nature), high quality... Urban Dictionary

Behavior showing good morals Urban Dictionary

Something, someone, or an action having good morality standard, pure (in nature), high quality... Urban Dictionary

Virtue are the points you can gain at Twisted Legacy. Other users suggest you for virtue when they feel you have been either informative, intelligent or funny. Urban Dictionary

An act or object that brings peace to someone when they do that thing or that thing is done to them, i.e. art, torment, & music.(can sometimes be emotion) Urban Dictionary

Was a specific virtue in Ancient Rome. It does not mean virtue in general, but something more like valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth (perceived masculine strengths, which may indicate its derivation from vir, man). Urban Dictionary

Vitally Important Right To Unite Everyone Urban Dictionary

Virtue-signaling (noun): the self-serving, disingenuous act of presenting & solidifying oneself as concerned with, committed to, or compliant to a specific political alignment regarding political topics or issues for prestige or ego. Urban Dictionary

A virtue boner is an erection that occurs as the result of reading or hearing something that could possibly be interpreted as being prejudice or offensive to an at-risk group. Unlike traditional erections that are satiated by masturbation or sexual intercourse, the virtue boner can only be satisfied by smugly declaring your moral superiority over the transgressor and then gently snapping your fingers. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Virtue

The word "virtue" in example sentences

But then his trousers were always rolled up at the knee, for the convenience of wading on the slightest notice; and his virtue, supposing it to exist, was undeniably “virtue in rags, ” which, on the authority even of bilious philosophers, who think all well-dressed merit overpaid, is notoriously likely to remain unrecognized (perhaps because it is seen so seldom). ❋ Unknown (1917)

The habit of virtue creates for him no wants but those which virtue itself suffices to satisfy; it is thus that _virtue is always its own peculiar reward_, that it remunerates itself with all the advantages which it incessantly procures for others. ❋ Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1756)

V. ii.348 (448,5) [The virtue of your eye must break my oath] I believe the author means that the _virtue, _ in which word _goodness_ and _power_ are both comprised, _must dissolve_ the obligation of the oath. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

V. v.220 (297,9) the temple/Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself] That is, She was not only _the temple of virtue_, but _virtue herself_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

* The term virtue* is employed in various senses, which, though they cover ❋ Unknown (1852)

Not wanting to make love to Bella until they are married, saying his virtue is the only thing he has intact; he is also a virgin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cicero said "The term virtue is from the word that signifies man; a man's chief quality is fortitude." ❋ Marguerite (2007)

The measure that men commonly apply to determine what they call virtue and vice. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'd begin from the ancient Roman ideal of manliness - which is the root of our term virtue [vir is Latin for man] - and work up through the weakening of that ideal of manliness by Christianity, and on towards Rousseau's bourgeois man before turning to Hemingway and such figures as Michael Landon as Pa Ingalls [here I would be indebted to Dutch.] ❋ Unknown (2006)

You and De Thou, who pride yourselves on what you call virtue -- you have failed in causing the death of perhaps a hundred thousand men -- at once and in the broad daylight -- for no end, while Richelieu and I have caused the death of far fewer, one by one, and by night, to found a great power. ❋ Various (N/A)

But what they call virtue and what they call vice are not the sort of things that he takes any particular interest in. ❋ Maugham, W Somerset (1938)

What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. ❋ Various (1885)

They are moralists, it may be, practicing at what they call a virtue by themselves, but they do nothing that brings them into any relationship with God. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)

This practice they have erected into so cruel a law, that even those of their sex who love perfectly, dissemble, and think that this virtue is a vice; but such of them as have good sense and sound judgment never fall into this error. ❋ Unknown (1855)

As virtue, what she called virtue, was the one thing indispensable to women, so was truth the one thing indispensable to men. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

During the meal my uncles had rallied me very much on what they called my virtue; they had treated my shyness in the presence of women as a sign of continence; and it was especially in this matter that they urged me to evil by ridiculing my modesty. ❋ George Sand (1840)

They boast of their morality, and despise all other nations; yet if you were to place what you call virtue in one scale, and vice, with twopence, in the other, they would forget their morality, and pocket the money. ❋ Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1791)

❋ Michael Edwards (2003)

Robespierre is the [exact] [definition] of virtue ❋ Hathor (2015)

[Jenny] gave me her last [piece of pizza], [therefore] she has virtue ❋ Enc1101 (2017)

Robespierre is the [exact] [definition] of virtue ❋ Hathor (2015)

[I like] to post in [the Daily] [Virtue] topics! ❋ Rampage (2003)

[I want] [to know] what [virtue] affects me ❋ Dat_Demon666 (2020)

Although the [Deviant Gentleman] felt he didn't [behold] virtus, he was very wrong. He was and is indeed a fine [gentleman] of many great virtues, including all that virtus beholds. ❋ Bret Michaels (2008)

What are your virtues ❋ MineOwedWu's (2021)

If the President genuinely cared about [women's rights], he'd [do less] [virtue-signaling] on Twitter and more action. ❋ Power Moves Only (2022)

When Karen heard John say the gender [pay gap] isn't necessarily the result of gender [discrimination], Karen got a huge [virtue boner] and got John fired for being a sexist. ❋ Teh_hax (2018)

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