virtue

Significat (Anglès)

1. Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
2. A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
3. 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.
4. An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
5. A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and archangels, and below seraphim and cherubim.
6. Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
7. (obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
8. The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).

Sinònims

merit

goodness

chastity

excellence

morality

righteousness

good

👍

advantage

integrity

morals

quality

fidelity

rectitude

purity

value

virtuousness

worth

conscience

efficacy

benefit

innocence

moral sense

piety

property

right

uprightness

sexual morality

good point

ethics

charity

alms

charm

strong point

meritoriousness

benefaction

probity

decency

modesty

moral

strength

effect

honesty

honor

superiority

good quality

guilelessness

great contributions

handout

force

good qualities

moral excellence

result of merit

pithiness

pleasantness

popularity

potency

power

precedency

predominance

predomination

preeminence

preference

preponderance

progress

admirable quality

propriety

prosperity

puissance

pureness

moral soundness

antecedence

moral merit

advantages

robustness

scholarship

strain

sturdiness

superbness

supremacy

supremeness

talent

thews

transcendence

transcendency

right-eousness

valuation

prevailingness

vice

victory

vigor

vigorousness

vigour

vim

active force

predominancy

worthiness

sexual abstention

meritorious deed

feminine modesty

virtuous conduct

celibacy

cleanness

dominance

effectualness

intelligence

efficiency

eminence

brawn

faculty

benevolence

forte

genius

fortune

good deeds

effective force

good works

gracefulness

humanity

impression

innocent

😇

justice

kernel

luck

🍀

man

👨

manpower

beauty

might

ascendancy

antecedency

moral principle

odds

overbalance

pas

Amb guionet com a

vir‧tue

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈvɜː.t͡ʃuː/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: vertu

In summary

From Middle English vertu, virtue, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertu, virtu, from Latin virtus (“manliness, bravery, worth, moral excellence”), from vir (“man”). Doublet of vertu. See virile. In this sense, displaced Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.