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What does virtue mean?
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virtue

A virtue is a morally good characteristic in a person. For example, honesty, patience, etc.

virtue

the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong (= merit) any admirable quality or attribute work of great merit morality with respect to sexual relations a particular moral excellence

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Simple sentences

Patience is a virtue.
She became rich by virtue of hard work and good business sense.
The man must have succeeded in business by virtue of his efforts.
This jacket has the virtue of being easy to wash.
Showing your real feelings is not considered a virtue in Japan.
Honesty is a capital virtue.
Virtue is its own reward.
Patience is a rare virtue these days.
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
In this society where everything is disposable, it is a virtue to use something until it wears out.
Apologizing is a great virtue.
The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
It's duck soup for a girl of easy virtue to find a new man.
Kindness is a virtue.
Honesty is a virtue.
Patience is the most beautiful virtue.
He can't distinguish vice from virtue.
Bravery is a great virtue.
Conciseness is a virtue.

Movie subtitles

The giraffe was hailed as a symbol of perfect virtue, perfect government and perfect harmony in the empire and the universe.
There's no virtue in making light of it.
Modesty not her strongest virtue, Nana returns to bask in her triumph.
But to be foremost in battle. is a virtue not to be despised.
Repentance is a virtue, Jekyll, but it's better to be punctual.
Commandant Dreyfus, in behalf of the president the people of the republic, and by virtue of the powers vested in me I knight you a member of the Legion of Honor.
We preach the virtue of avoiding excesses of every kind.
Even including excess of virtue itself.
What special virtue this room has I'm sure I don't know.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.
And I hereby decree that until what time if any, that I return the Scarecrow, by virtue of his highly superior brains shall rule in my stead assisted by the Tin Man, by virtue of his magnificent heart and the Lion, by virtue of his courage.
You must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue.
Therefore, this said court, by virtue of articles 2o5, 6 and 7 of the military code condemns this woman to be shot to death by rifle fire.
That's true virtue.
I have long admired you. Deep with wonder on your sweet and maidenly virtue. Marveled at your tender loveliness.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.
So. maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.
On the one hand we have virtue, on the other year alone he put 40,000 men to work!
The Easy Virtue.
There its armored warriors ride, fraught with the fanatic will to maintain their country's peace and isolation by virtue of their own strength and their own belief in whatever the future may bring.
Very true. I can even say, Dr Stegg. That villainy often receives more applause.. than virtue.
Virtue is its own reward as the Good Book says.
Uh, by virtue of the power invested in me. and by virtue of the solemn promises you have made. I hereby pronounce you to be man and wife.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum I hereby confer upon you. -.the honorary degree of Th.D.
So maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.
It's your only virtue.
From her heart has come an ever-increasing flow of virtue and moral blessing.
Love, it seems, has triumphed over virtue.
Politeness is a virtue.
I'm sorry. Politeness is a virtue, I know.

News and current affairs

Modesty is a virtue in private life.
DENVER - Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy.
It seems like common sense - even moral virtue - to respond this way.
By virtue of his unique personal history, he can bridge Africa, America, and even Asia - where he studied as a young boy in a Muslim school - thereby reviving the universal image and message of America.
So, like St. Augustine, they promise virtue, but not until next year.
Nevertheless, Bush's initiative is not devoid of virtue.
Virtue is defined by good accounting rules.
The same is true for the virtue of tolerance and for multilingualism.
Psychologically, this virtue implies the ability to put oneself in others' position.
Capitalism has perhaps eroded rents that workers in advanced countries enjoy by virtue of where they were born.
Tolerance becomes the cardinal European virtue in this vision, and the EU's character as an entity with federal law but without federal statehood is viewed as a strength, not a weakness.
Royal's chief virtue is that she has not taken part in the numerous internal battles that infuriate socialist militants and voters, and her lack of direct association with the party's leadership has enabled her to avoid blame for its mistakes.
Fibrinopeptides are short sequences that are relatively easy to purify and have the virtue of changing significantly from species to species.
In contrast to hormone treatments, given only to patients likely to respond by virtue of an analysis of their hormone receptors, chemotherapy is given to all or any eligible patients.
Under these circumstances, budgetary recklessness is a virtue, at least in the short term.
Its virtue is that it gives policymakers something clear to do, with promised returns that match the political cycle.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political virtue.
That virtue consisted in honoring commitments, and it would build solidarity in the new political community of the United States.
Public spending cuts come more naturally to Conservatives, and they have - despite their lack of candor - attempted to make a virtue out of this necessity.
We have to display magnanimity - a difficult enough virtue to practice at the best of times.
Proclaiming fiscal virtue enabled them to practice fiscal vice.
This suggests a golden opportunity for Europe to make a virtue of necessity by pooling its access to much-cheaper IMF funding.
Strict Protestants make a virtue out of brutal frankness, because they believe they have a direct pipeline to God.

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