A person considered as a model of virtue, beauty, ability, etc. A pure, innocent, or morally good person; a person of exemplary virtue or conduct…

A person who practises morality; someone who behaves in a morally commendable way. Now rare.

A morally virtuous or highly esteemed woman. Obsolete.

A person of extraordinary holiness of life. Sometimes ironically, A person making an outward profession of piety. Also in colloquial use, an…

figurative. A seraphic person, an ‘angel’.

a person who makes a show of being without moral faults or human weakness, esp. in a hypocritical way.

(usually with the, frequently in plural) a good or virtuous person; esp. one who is on the side of good against evil in a story, film, etc., and…