Virtue

['vɜːtjuː;-tʃuː] or ['vɝtʃʊ]

解释:

(noun.) the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.

(noun.) a particular moral excellence.

(noun.) morality with respect to sexual relations.

黛朵录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.

(n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.

(n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.

(n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

(n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.

(n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.

(n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.

(n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

整理:马库斯

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Force, efficacy, power, strength, potency.[2]. Goodness (that comes from self discipline), uprightness, probity, integrity, rectitude, morality, worth, moral excellence.

贾尼斯编辑

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Power, capacity, strength, force, efficacy, excellence, value, morality,goodness, uprightness, purity, chastity, salubrity

ANT:Weakness, incapacity, inability, inefficacy, badness, corruption, vice,immorality, impurity, unchastity, virulence, malignancy

校对:沃尔多

解释:

n. excellence: worth: moral excellence: the practice of duty: a moral excellence: sexual purity esp. female chastity: purity: (B.) strength: force: inherent power efficacy: one of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.—adj. Vir′tual having virtue or efficacy: having the efficacy without the material part: in effect though not in fact: (mech.) possible and infinitesimal.—adv. Vir′tually.—adjs. Vir′tueless wanting virtue: without efficacy; Vir′tue-proof (Milt.) impregnable in virtue; Vir′tuous having virtue or moral goodness: blameless: righteous: practising duty: being according to the moral law: chaste (of a woman).—adv. Vir′tuously.—n. Vir′tuousness.—By In virtue of through the power force or efficacy of; Make a virtue of necessity to do as if from inclination or sense of duty something one must needs do; Seven principal Virtues faith hope charity justice prudence temperance and fortitude—the first three the theological the last four the moral virtues; The cardinal virtues (see Cardinal).

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