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n. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.

n. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience.

n. Chastity, especially in a woman.

n. A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.

n. Effective force or power: believed in the virtue of prayer.

n. Christianity The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

n. Obsolete Manly courage; valor.

idiom. by On the grounds or basis of; by reason of: well-off by virtue of a large inheritance.

n. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.

n. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy.

n. Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.

n. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

n. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.

n. A particular moral excellence.

n. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.

n. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

n. Manly spirit; bravery; valor; daring; courage.

n. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the conformity of life and conversation to the moral law; uprightness; rectitude; morality: the opposite of vice.

n. A particular moral excellence: as, the virtue of temperance or of charity.

n. Specifically, female purity; chastity.

n. Any good quality, merit, or admirable faculty.

n. An inherent power; a property capable of producing certain effects; strength; force; potency; efficacy; influence, especially active influence, and often medicinal efficacy.

n. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. The virtues are often represented in art as angels in complete armor, bearing pennons and battle-axes.

n. A mighty work; a miracle.

n. Synonyms Morals, Ethics, etc. (see morality); probity, integrity, rectitude, worth.

n. any admirable quality or attribute

n. morality with respect to sexual relations

n. a particular moral excellence

n. the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

"The habit of virtue creates for him no wants but those which virtue itself suffices to satisfy; it is thus that _virtue is always its own peculiar reward_, that it remunerates itself with all the advantages which it incessantly procures for others."

by virtue of   

vice   

worth    goodness    good   

power    effectiveness    cardinal virtues    principal virtues    by virtue of    material virtue    to make a virtue of necessity    theological virtues    moral virtue   

bravery    daring    spirit    valor    energy    strength    potency    efficacy    excellence    value   

wisdom    beauty    quality    knowledge    principle    happiness    justice    genius    purity    morality