Preposition: of

• section: The following report is not available to the public by virtue of the above section of the Local Government Act 1972.

• clause: In addition to the members so elected and also those serving by virtue of clauses 07. and 03.

• humility: While still young she entered the Carmelite monastery at Lisieux and practiced virtues of humility, evangelical simplicity and a firm confidence in God.

• fact: The material has been acquired by the University Library by virtue of the fact that it is one of the UK's legal deposit libraries.

• simplicity: Option 1 has the virtue of simplicity and the vise of leaving no room for enjoyable pedantic nitpicking.

Converse of object

• extol: IT Tip of the Month Mozilla Firefox Ian extolled the virtues of the open source browser Firefox at the Resources seminar.

• infuse: They are intimately connected with the infused virtues of faith, hope and love, as Balthasar writes.

• proclaim: Hearing her words, I couldn't help thinking of the contemporary habit ( often proclaimed a virtue ) of divided attention.

• embody: Walnut catsup embodies the medicinal virtues of the unripe nuts.

• exemplify: Responsive, well-drilled choral singing exemplified these virtues, impressively agile for the numbers involved.

• possess: To possess a virtue is to be a certain sort of person with a certain complex mindset.

Adjective modifier

• cardinal: To golf unhappily he did not take, and golf is a cardinal virtue in the city of the winds.

• manly: He is inclined to be merciful to the gladiators who display virtus or ` manly virtue ' .

• moral: It is true that for Rumi the moral virtues are never ends in themselves.

• supreme: They were a philosophical school for whom contentment was the supreme virtue.

• medicinal: A chalybeate spring, at Wares Farm, was formerly in repute for medicinal virtues.

• intellectual: Physics requires many intellectual virtues to do it properly.

Modifies a noun

• ethicist: Virtue ethicists have eschewed any attempt to ground virtue ethics in an external foundation while continuing to maintain that their claims can be validated.

• epistemology: A number of claims have been made on behalf of virtue epistemology.

• ethic: For virtue ethics, the problem concerns the question of which character traits are the virtues.