Look up: Virtue

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   virtue
   [n] - morality with respect to sexual relations 2. [n] - a particular moral excellence 3. [n] - the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
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   virtue
   Originally, ability or efficiency, often involving moral worth. In classical Greek it is used especially to refer to manly qualities. Christian teaching distinguishes the cardinal virtues of...
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   Virtue
   Vir'tue noun [ Middle English vertu , French vertu , Latin virtus strength, courage, excellence, virtue, from vir a man. See Virile , and confer Virtu .] 1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. [ Obsolete] Shak. « Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn.» Chapman. 2. A ...
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   virtue
   1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. 'Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn.' (Chapman) ... 2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine. 'Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone o ...
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   virtue
   sexual morality noun morality with respect to sexual relations
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   virtue
   moral excellence noun the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
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   Virtue
   `Virtue` (Latin `virtus`; Greek ) is moral excellence of a person. A virtue is a trait valued as being good. The conceptual opposite of virtue is vice. According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus) signifies manliness or courage. Taken in its widest sense virtue refers to excellence, just as vice, its contrary, denotes the absence of such. In its strictest meaning, however, as used by moral philosophers and theologians, virtue is an ...
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   Virtue
   • (n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. • (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance. • (n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine. • (n.) A ...
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   virtue
   (from the article `ethics`) How should we live? Shall we aim at happiness or at knowledge, virtue, or the creation of beautiful objects? If we choose happiness, will it be our ... ...particular ethical theory. Contemporary bioethicists make use of a variety of different views, including primarily utilitarianism and Kantianism ... The...
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    virtue
    in Christianity, any of the seven virtues selected as being fundamental to Christian ethics. They consist of the four `natural` virtues, those ... [2 related articles]
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    virtue
    virtue 1. The quality of being morally good or righteous. 2. A particular quality that is morally good. 3. A particular quality that is good or admirable, but not necessarily in terms of morality. 4. 'Moral life and conduct, moral excellence,' vertu; from Anglo-French and Old French vertu, from Latin virtutem, 'moral strength, manliness, valor, excel...
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    virtue
    virtue [Lat.,=manliness], in philosophy, quality of good in human conduct. The cardinal virtues, as presented by Plato, were wisdom (or prudence), courage, temperance, and justice. They are to be interpreted as descriptive of conduct rather than innate qualities and are achieved through proper train...
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    Virtue
    (Gr. arete) In Aristotle's philosophy that state of a thing which constitutes its peculiar excellence and enables it to perform its function well; particularly, in man, the activity of reason and of rationally ordered habits. (Lat. virtus) In Roman philosophy, virtue became associated with virility and strength of character. In the Italian renaiss...
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