1 [U] (formal) behaviour or attitudes that show high moral standards:
He led a life of virtue. * She was certainly no paragon of virtue!
2 [C] a particular good quality or habit:
Patience is not one of her virtues, I'm afraid. * As a politician, he always emphasized the virtues of compromise and conciliation.
3 [C,U] an attractive or useful quality
SYNADVANTAGE:
The plan has the virtue of simplicity. * He was extolling the virtues of the Internet. * They could see no virtue in discussing it further.
IDIOMS
by / in virtue of sth (formal) by means of or because of sth:
She got the job by virtue of her greater experience.
make a virtue of necessity to manage to gain an advantage from sth that you have to do and cannot avoid:
She decided to make a virtue of necessity and combined a business trip to Paris with a visit to her cousins there.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for virtue is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is virtue a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, virtue is tagged as noun.
Does virtue appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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