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tʃu noun
Idioms 1.
moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
2.
conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.
3.
chastity; virginity: to lose one's virtue.
4.
5.
a good or admirable quality or property: the virtue of knowing one's weaknesses.
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10.
make a virtue of necessity, to make the best of a difficult or unsatisfactory situation.
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Origin:
1175–1225; alteration (with i < Latin) of Middle English vertu < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin virtūt- (stem of virtūs) maleness, worth, virtue, equivalent to vir man (see virile) + -tūt- abstract noun suffix
1175–1225; alteration (with i < Latin) of Middle English vertu < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin virtūt- (stem of virtūs) maleness, worth, virtue, equivalent to vir man (see virile) + -tūt- abstract noun suffix
Related forms
vir·tue·less, adjective
vir·tue·less·ness, noun
non·vir·tue, noun
Antonyms
1. vice.
1. vice.
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virtue (ˈvɜːtjuː, -tʃuː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the quality or practice of moral excellence or righteousness |
| 2. | a particular moral excellence: the virtue of tolerance |
| 3. | any of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) or theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity) |
| 4. | any admirable quality, feature, or trait |
| 5. | chastity, esp in women |
| 6. | archaic an effective, active, or inherent power or force |
| 7. | by virtue of, in virtue of on account of or by reason of |
| 8. | make a virtue of necessity to acquiesce in doing something unpleasant with a show of grace because one must do it in any case |
| [C13: vertu, from Old French, from Latin virtūs manliness, courage, from vir man] | |
| 'virtueless | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
virtue
early 13c., "moral life and conduct, moral excellence," vertu, from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. vertu, from L. virtutem (nom. virtus) "moral strength, manliness, valor, excellence, worth," from vir "man" (see virile). Phrase by virtue of (early 13c.) preserves alternative M.E. sense
of "efficacy." Wyclif Bible has virtue where K.J.V. uses power. The seven cardinal virtues (early 14c.) were divided into the natural (justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude) and the theological (hope, faith, charity). To make a virtue of a necessity (late 14c.) translates L. facere de necessitate virtutem. [Jerome]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess, but error.
As a form of corporate entertainment, golf's first virtue is that people of any age can play it.
It rises as it ricochets off other people, returning to us stronger by virtue of being released.
We tend to feel that political participation is an unmixed good, a symptom of civic health and virtue.
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