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Another word for virtuous

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Adjective

  1. In accordance with principles of right or good conduct

    See also:

    right

  2. Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct

    See also:

    sex

    restraint

    good

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Another word for virtuous

Modifier
  1. See also:

    moral

    chaste

    worthy

    righteous

    noble

    moral

    chaste

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Sentence Examples

  • She was the most honest and virtuous woman that he had ever met.

  • The virtuous man is pure, not in act only, but also in heart.

  • For if the pleasure of virtuous activity is a supervening end beyond the activity, it becomes a supervening end beyond the happiness of virtuous activity, which thus ceases to be the final end.

  • Love is a divine instinct: to love is to be virtuous; follow the dictates of your heart and you cannot go wrong - such is the doctrine that George Sand preached and practised.

  • The higher happiness is given to man by free grace of God; but it is given to those only whose heart is right, and as a reward of virtuous actions.

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