Virtue definition
A plan with the virtue of being practical.
Believed in the virtue of prayer.
The virtue of a medicine.
An example of virtue is the following of all the Ten Commandments.
The virtue of patience.
The virtue in planning ahead.
The virtues of teaching as a profession.
- On the grounds or basis of; by reason of:Well-off by virtue of a large inheritance.
- because of; on the grounds of
- to accept with an agreeable or positive attitude that which must be accepted anyway
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Origin of virtue
- Middle English vertu from Old French from Latin virtūs manliness, excellence, goodness from vir man wī-ro- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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