virtue

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UK /ˈvɜːt͡ʃuː/ US /ˈvɝt͡ʃu/

noun 5name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

cardinal, great, special | chief

inherent

Honesty is an inherent virtue that most parents try to teach their children.

negative, positive

Honesty might seem like a negative virtue in business, but it builds lasting trust.

old-fashioned, traditional

My grandmother believes in the old-fashioned virtue of saving money rather than spending it carelessly.

Christian, ethical, moral | domestic | civic, public | political

easy

She appreciated his easy virtue and trusted him completely with her most precious secrets.

VERB + VIRTUE

have

The main advantage of this old camera is that it has the virtue of reliability.

emphasize, extol, preach

The teacher always emphasized the virtue of honesty with her students.

PHRASES

make a virtue of necessity

a paragon of virtue

My grandmother was considered a paragon of virtue in our small community for her kindness.

Definitions

noun

(uncountable) The idea of all that is good or excellent (in every sense of those terms) in a human being, collectively instantiated by a varying number of human traits known as "the virtues", the enumeration of which vary by the many virtue

Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.

Without virtue, there is no freedom.

There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.

An attribute of a personality (a "personality trait") which predisposes a person to behaviors resulting in human goodness; an admirable quality.

The commission of acts by a person which he or she believes to be wrong can cause a diminishment of one or more of the virtues which subsist in the person's personality; in this way such actions may be viewed as significant life events.

Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known […].

A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person.

Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.

The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.

name

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wron

virtuousness

noun — morality with respect to sexual relations

chastity

noun — any admirable quality or attribute

merit

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

patience is a virtue

It is better to be patient than impatient.

by virtue of

(originally) By the authority or power of; (now) because of; on the grounds of; by reason of.

Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them th

in virtue of

Synonym of by virtue of.

make a virtue of necessity

To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits.

Indeed, because you are a banish'd man, Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you: Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of necessity And live, as we do, in this wi

dormitive virtue

A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of "dormitiv

Example Bank

Without virtue, there is no freedom.

Wiktionary

There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.

Wiktionary

“Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.”

Wiktionary

She became rich by virtue of hard work and good business sense.

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

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The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.

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