meaning of virtue
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; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
8. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
9. the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
Related Words
virtue | virtueless |
