n. | 1. | Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. | |||||||||
2. | Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; | ||||||||||
3. | Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance. | ||||||||||
4. | Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth. | ||||||||||
5. | Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty. | ||||||||||
6. | A particular moral excellence; | ||||||||||
7. | Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity. | ||||||||||
8. | One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Noun | 1. | virtue - the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong Synonyms: moral excellence, virtuousness |
2. | ![]() Synonyms: merit | |
3. | virtue - morality with respect to sexual relations Synonyms: sexual morality, chastity | |
4. | virtue - a particular moral excellence |