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virtuously

[ UK /vˈɜːt‍ʃuːəsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a moral manner
    he acted morally under the circumstances
  2. in a chaste and virtuous manner
    she lived chastely

How To Use virtuously In A Sentence

  • a friendly, though seedy, abernethy and glass of wine or beer; and then went home virtuously to bed. She and I, Volume 1
  • Pro 31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
  • The most striking feature of this work was that Ramus defined theology as the art of living virtuously, ars bene vivendi, adopting an essentially Zwinglian point of view. Petrus Ramus
  • Belief in a thousand hells and heavens will not lift the apathetic out of apathy or hold back the passionate from passion; while a newly planted and ungalled community, in blessed forgetfulness of rewards or punishments, of cosmic needs or celestial sanctions, will know how to live cheerily and virtuously for life's own sake, putting to shame those thin vaticinations. The Life of Reason
  • I know people who have really struggled with the Church, or rejected the very idea of virtue, because they think living virtuously would make them conformist automatons.
  • They are {114} called 'sureties' because they give security to the Church that the child shall be virtuously brought up; The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness
  • ‘Oh no,’ they tell the doctors virtuously, between bouts of vomiting, ‘I'd never do that; I wouldn't make a show of myself like that.’
  • While Mother rises virtuously early for sacristan duties at Little Saint Mary's church, we heathens opt for an indolent morning with the papers.
  • (mixed Lydian and Hypolydian) with drunkenness, effeminacy, and idleness and considers that such music is "useless even to women that are to be virtuously given, not to say to men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
  • I am (a) hungry and (b) yawny and (c) worked virtuously all damned day. He's about to make you an offer you can't refuse.
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