Virtue

n.	1.	Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn. - Chapman.
	2.	Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine. Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about. - Mark v. 30. A man was driven to depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax. - De Quincey. The virtue of his midnight agony. - Keble.
	3.	Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance. She moves the body which she doth possess, Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. - Sir. J. Davies.
	4.	Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth. I made virtue of necessity. - Chaucer. In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is better observed than in Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences. - B. Jonson.
	5.	Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty. Virtue only makes our bliss below. - Pope. If there's Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue. - Addison.
	6.	A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
	7.	Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity. H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it. - Goldsmith.
	8.	One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. - Milton. Cardinal virtues See under Cardinal, a. In virtue of through the force of; by authority of. Theological virtues the three virtues, faith, hope, and charity. See 1 Cor. xiii. 13. - Addison.

Noun	1.	virtue - the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong Synonyms: moral excellence, virtuousness
	2.	virtue - any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit" Synonyms: merit
	3.	virtue - morality with respect to sexual relations Synonyms: sexual morality, chastity
	4.	virtue - a particular moral excellence

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