meaning of virtuous
1. Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
2. Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
3. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
4. Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
5. Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
6. in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and
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