virtue

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Related terms 1.3.4 See also 1.3.5 Translations 1.3.6 External links

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English vertu < Old French vertu < Latin virtus (“‘the qualities of a man, strength, courage, bravery, capacity, worth, manliness, applied to physical and intellectual excellence; also of moral excellence, virtue, morality’”) < vir (“‘man’”); see virile.

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: vûrʹtū, vûrʹcho̅o̅, IPA: /ˈvɝ.tju/, /ˈvɝ.ʧu/
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[edit] Noun

virtue (countable and uncountable; plural virtues)

1. (uncountable) excellence in morals
2. (countable) A good habit
3. (countable) a good model quality
4. (uncountable) chastity and faithfulness
5. (countable) an exemplary quality
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.

6. (Christian angelology, biblical tradition) the second level of angels, ranked above angels and below archangels

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• vice (1)

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• aretaic

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[edit] External links

• virtue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• virtue in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911