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vir·tue V0117300 (vûr′cho͞o)n.1. a. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.b. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience.2. Archaic Chastity, especially in a woman.3. A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.4. Effective force or power: believed in the virtue of prayer.5. virtues Christianity The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.6. Obsolete Manly courage; valor.Idiom: by/in virtue of On the grounds or basis of; by reason of: well-off by virtue of a large inheritance. [Middle English vertu, from Old French, from Latin virtūs, manliness, excellence, goodness, from vir, man; see wī-ro- in Indo-European roots.]virtues (ˈvɜːtjuːz; -tʃuːz) pl n (Theology) (often capital) the fifth of the nine orders into which the angels are traditionally divided in medieval angelologyEncyclopediaSeevirtue |