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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
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- virtue ['v3ːtjuː]
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1.
n
the quality or practice of moral excellence or righteousness
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2.
n
a particular moral excellence
- the virtue of tolerance
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3.
n
any of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) or theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity)
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4.
n
any admirable quality, feature, or trait
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5.
n
chastity, esp in women
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6.
n
[archaic]
an effective, active, or inherent power or force
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7.
n
[Etymology]
C13 vertu, from Old French, from Latin virt
u s manliness, courage, from vir man
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1.
n
the quality or practice of moral excellence or righteousness
Examples
- a capital virtue
- 重要的品德 → capital
- She is the embodiment of virtue.
- 她是美德的化身。 → embodiment
- She was exercised in virtue.
- 她在培养品德。 → exercise
- the virtue in planning ahead
- 先有计划的好处 → virtue
- the virtue of a medicine
- 药物的疗效 → virtue
- by virtue of
- [frm] 由于 → virtue
- heroic virtue → heroic
- a paragon of virtue → paragon
- the path of virtue → path
- you're the paragon of virtue, I don't think → I don't think
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