1. The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
   - virtuousness, moral excellence 
2. Any admirable quality or attribute
   - merit 
3. Morality with respect to sexual relations
   - chastity, sexual morality 
4. A particular moral excellence

Derived forms: virtues

See also: chaste, unchaste, virtuous

Type of: good, goodness, morality, worth

Encyclopedia: Virtue Virtue, liberty, and independence

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