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Another word for virtue

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Noun

  1. The quality or state of being morally sound

    See also:

    right

  2. The condition of being chaste

    See also:

    sex

    restraint

    good

  3. A special feature or quality that confers superiority

      1. The quality or condition of being perfect.
      2. The act or process of perfecting:
      3. A person or thing considered to be perfect.
      1. Superior quality or worth; excellence:
      2. A quality deserving praise or approval; virtue:
      3. Demonstrated ability or achievement:
      1. The state, quality, or condition of excelling; superiority.
      2. Something in which one excels.
      3. Excellency.
      1. The act of distinguishing; differentiation:
      2. The condition or fact of being dissimilar or distinct; difference:
      3. A distinguishing factor, attribute, or characteristic:
      1. A quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, authenticity, and originality.
      2. One that is beautiful, especially a beautiful woman.
      3. A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling:
    See also:

    good

  4. A level of superiority that is usually high

      1. The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable:
      2. Material or market value:
      3. A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means:
      1. An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
      2. Monetary or material worth:
      3. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit:
      1. The natural height of a human or animal in an upright position.
      2. An achieved level; status.
      1. An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property:
      2. A personal trait, especially a character trait:
      3. Essential character; nature:
      1. Superior quality or worth; excellence:
      2. A quality deserving praise or approval; virtue:
      3. Demonstrated ability or achievement:
      1. The diameter of the inside of a round cylinder, such as a tube.
      2. The diameter of the bore of a firearm, usually shown in hundredths or thousandths of an inch and expressed in writing or print in terms of a decimal fraction:
      3. The diameter of a large projectile, such as an artillery shell, measured in millimeters or in inches.
    See also:

    value

    good

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Another word for virtue

Noun

  1. Moral excellence

  2. Antonyms:

  3. An individual excellence

      1. The ability or capacity to act or do something effectively:
      2. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude:
      3. Physical strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted:
      1. The ability to receive, hold, or absorb something:
      2. The maximum amount that can be contained:
      3. The power to learn or retain knowledge; mental ability.
      1. The act of distinguishing; differentiation:
      2. The condition or fact of being dissimilar or distinct; difference:
      3. A distinguishing factor, attribute, or characteristic:
      1. Something owned; a possession.
      2. A piece of real estate:
      3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title:
      1. The process of achieving something:
      2. Something that has been achieved, especially by means of skill or perseverance:
      1. The act of accomplishing or the state of being accomplished; completion:
      2. Something carried out or completed successfully; an achievement:
      3. An acquired skill or refinement:
      1. Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.
      2. The overall appearance of the face or its parts.
      3. A prominent or distinctive part, quality, or characteristic:
      1. A distinguishing feature, as of a person's character.
      2. A genetically determined characteristic or condition:
      3. A short line or mark made with a writing or drawing implement.
      1. A road, path, or highway affording passage from one place to another.
      2. An opening affording passage:
      3. Space to proceed:
      1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate:
      2. To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading:
      3. To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
      1. To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe:
      2. To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time:
      3. A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.
      1. Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive:
      2. A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
      3. The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa:
      1. An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property:
      2. A personal trait, especially a character trait:
      3. Essential character; nature:
    Antonyms:

  4. Probity in sexual conduct

      1. The state or quality of being decent; propriety.
      2. Conformity to prevailing standards of propriety or modesty.
      3. Social or moral proprieties.
      1. The quality or condition of being pure:
      2. Freedom from spiritual or moral defilement; innocence or chastity:
      3. The degree to which a color is free from being mixed with other colors.
      1. The quality or condition of being a virgin.
      2. The state of being pure, unsullied, or untouched.
    See also:

    chastity

Idioms:

    by-virtue-of

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Sentence Examples

  • I can't deny the power of prayer, or the virtue of tenacity.

  • Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous.

  • "Virtue is knowledge"; knowledge of what?

  • Virtue is often held up for admiration, and vice painted in revolting colours or derided.

  • The love of right reason is the supreme virtue, whence flow the cardinal virtues, diligence, obedience, justice and humility.

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