Virtue is the quality of being morally good. If you're writing a screenplay and you want it to be a real tearjerker, make sure your hero is full of virtue.
Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
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the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
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a particular moral excellence
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morality with respect to sexual relations
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any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit"
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Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
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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.
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Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc.
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Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of
women; virginity.
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One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
Virtue
Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn.2.
Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about.
A man was driven to depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax.
The virtue of his midnight agony.3.
She moves the body which she doth possess, Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch.4.
I made virtue of necessity.
In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is better observed than in Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences.5.
Virtue only makes our bliss below.
If there's Power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.6.
8.H. I believe the girl has virtue.M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it.
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
Usage Examples
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.
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Other Usage ExamplesFaith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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