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UK
/vˈɜːtʃuː/
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[ US /ˈvɝtʃu/ ]
[ US /ˈvɝtʃu/ ]
NOUN
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any admirable quality or attribute
work of great merit - morality with respect to sexual relations
- the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
- a particular moral excellence
How To Use virtue In A Sentence
- Wilkins is now extolling the virtues of organic farming.
- We are so strict with our physical intactness . It is certainly more important that a man to keep his intact virtue.
- Rather than a traditional neoliberal who tries to extol the virtues of trade, he prefers to just ignore its impact entirely. Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Ever-Bigger Government
- While it's no surprise that this script is based on Nelson's own play, given the perfectly measured arguments, the film is never short on cinematic virtues.
- 'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- Since this difference of aspect in the object differentiates the species of virtue, it seems that dulia is divided into specifically different virtues.
- Every man has the defects of his own virtues [his qualities].
- At least Kant had the virtue of rigid consistency and did not make casuistic exceptions. The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:
- Therefore _synesis_ extends to all matters of judgment, and consequently there is no other virtue of good judgment called _gnome. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Faustianism, in the modern sense of endless questing, had come to be regarded as a virtue. MOTIF