Examples of 'virtue' in a sentence
Meaning of "virtue"
Virtue (noun): Virtue refers to a quality or trait considered morally good, desirable, or admirable in a person. It often involves honesty, integrity, kindness, and courage
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- Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
- A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
- Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.
- An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
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Virtue is best conquered with the truth.
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
By virtue of the rules of private international law.
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
What does the virtue of a young woman weigh.
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
There is little virtue in me but much sin.
Virtue and sin braided in our hair.
So consequently your virtue is not real virtue.
The virtue of the devil is in his loins.
You have to cultivate virtue through benevolence.
Every virtue has its corresponding vice.
That has the added virtue of being true.
Because virtue is a habit acquired through practice.
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My mother gave up her virtue to a prison guard.
Virtue will garnish his thoughts unceasingly.
We understand the virtue of a place in high society.
Their vocation to marriage is a call to heroic virtue.
It had the virtue of never having been tried.
He was not always the paragon of virtue he is now.
Some fleeting virtue in not being a mass murderer.
They are the police ofvice and virtue.
That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel.
It is we who call your smallest virtue sublime.
To seek for virtue and get virtue.
You tried to convince them of your virtue.
The nature of this virtue is to be very active.
They are the stones of true solid virtue.
Ambition is the virtue of all great men.
True happiness may only be found in virtue.
There is a virtue in knowing when you are licked.
Anyone would think your virtue was at stake.
They are virtue and generosity and contentment.
She did not understand the virtue of discipline.
I surrendered believing you were a man of high virtue.
The rewards of virtue are infinitely more attractive.
Specialized courts may be set up by virtue of a law.
We teach that virtue lies in avoiding excess.
The world thinks you are a paragon of virtue.
She repented her past virtue as if it were a crime.
The writer revels in vice to preach virtue.
Patience being a virtue you know nothing about.
Shun pleasure for the sake of virtue.
And against which virtue seeks vengeance.
And you are her little paragon of virtue.
Mercy is the virtue of the higher person.
He comes from a family where silence is a virtue.
I can tell virtue and vice apart.
I rely on good institutions to push ourselves to virtue.
