virtue
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noun
1. behavior showing high moral standards:
｟かたく｠ 善, 徳, 美徳(goodness)(↔ vice)
e.g. paragons of virtue.
a quality considered morally good or desirable in a person:
(個々の特に道徳上の)美点, 徳目
e.g. patience is a virtue.
a good or useful quality of a thing:
(物･事の)長所, 利点(advantage)
e.g. Mike was extolling the virtues of the car
e.g. there's no virtue in suffering in silence.
archaic virginity or chastity, especially of a woman.
｟古｠ (女性の)貞節, 貞操
2. (virtues) (in traditional Christian angelology) the seventh highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy.
〖～s〗 〘神〙 力天使〘天使9階級中の第5位; → angel 1 〙
PHRASES
by virtue of (or in virtue of)
because or as a result of.
make a virtue of
derive benefit or advantage from submitting to (an unwelcome obligation or unavoidable circumstance).
DERIVATIVES
virtueless adjective
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French vertu, from Latin virtus ‘valor, merit, moral perfection’, from vir ‘man’.