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单词 virtu
释义

virtu

/vəːˈt(j)uː /
(also vertu)
noun [mass noun]
1Knowledge of or expertise in the fine arts.
1.1Curios or objets d’art collectively.
2 literary The good qualities inherent in a person or thing.Even in a civil republic, leaders would emerge who had the quality of virtu, who could negotiate with fortune, and who understood political necessity....
  • He singles out two essential methods of organizing home affairs in such a way as to instil the quality of virtu in the whole body of the citizens.
  • Cavendish is appropriating Machiavellian virtu as a female as well as male quality.

Phrases

article (or object) of virtu

Origin

Early 18th century: from Italian virtù 'virtue'; the variant vertu is an alteration, as if from French.

Rhymes

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