Thesaurus: virtuous

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1. a. Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
2. a. Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
3. a. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
4. a. Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
5. a. Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
6. adj. morally excellent
7. adj. in a state of sexual virginity
8. 1. Possessing or exhibiting virtue. Specifically: -- (a) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. [Obs.] Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous. Chapman. (b) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent. [Obs.] Chaucer. Lifting up his virtuous staff on high, He smote the sea, which calméd was with speed. Spenser. Every virtuous plant and healing herb. Milton. (c) Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action. The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, conscience. Milton. 2. Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women. Mistress Ford . . . the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband. Shak. -- Vir"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vir"tu*ous*ness, n.
9. j:100 a. morally excellent