AskEraser  |  Settings
Ask.com   
 


Synonyms
vir·tue (vûŕchōō)

[Middle English vertu, from Old French, from Latin virtūs, manliness, excellence, goodness, from vir, man.]

noun 

    1. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.
    2. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience.
  2. Chastity, especially in a woman.
  3. A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.
  4. Effective force or power: believed in the virtue of prayer.
  5. Christianity The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
  6. Obsolete Manly courage; valor.

idioms

by virtue of
On the grounds or basis of; by reason of: well-off by virtue of a large inheritance.