virtue: significato e definizioni

Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.

An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience.

Chastity, especially in a woman.

A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.

Effective force or power: believed in the virtue of prayer.

Christianity The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

Obsolete Manly courage; valor.

by On the grounds or basis of; by reason of: well-off by virtue of a large inheritance.