Thesaurus: virtue

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1. n. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
2. 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.
3. n. Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
4. n. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
5. n. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
6. n. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
7. n. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
8. n. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
9. n. the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
10. n. any admirable quality or attribute
11. n. morality with respect to sexual relations
12. n. a particular moral excellence