Definitions for virtue

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virtue vir·tue

Spelling: [vur-choo]

IPA: /ˈvɜr tʃu/

Virtue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in virtue (eirtuv).

Definitions for virtue

noun

1. moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
2. conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.
3. chastity; virginity:
4. a particular moral excellence. Compare cardinal virtues, natural virtue, theological virtue.
5. a good or admirable quality or property:
6. effective force; power or potency:
7. virtues, an order of angels. Compare angel (def 1).
8. manly excellence; valor.

Idioms

1. by / in virtue of, by reason of; because of:
2. make a virtue of necessity, to make the best of a difficult or unsatisfactory situation.

Origin of virtue

1175-1225; alteration (with i Latin) of Middle English vertu Anglo-French, Old French Latin virtūt- (stem of virtūs) maleness, worth, virtue, equivalent to vir man (see

Examples for virtue

Who, that has once trespassed with them, ever recovered his virtue?

She made a virtue of necessity; and the man was quite another man with her. '

Paragon of virtue Oliver North called for charges to be filed against Warner Brothers Music.

He saw no virtue in stubbornness, and he could never have taken pleasure in the refusal to act on something.

By virtue of being readers we are also writers, I now believe, but that was not always the case.

Let young men hear the praise of virtue from the lips of beauty.

But the military can mitigate the risks simply by virtue of its enormous logistical reach.

It is their virtue in life to be lonely, and none but the lonely man in tragedy may be great.

I asked him what reward the Helots had for bravery or virtue.

“Claiming that moderation in a time of such crisis is no virtue,” the martyr of American Russian studies declared.