virtue
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈvɜr.tʃu/
- Honesty is a virtue that helps build trust in relationships.
- a moral virtue
- vices and virtues
- virtue ethics
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Watch on YouTubeIf you have to sacrifice health to virtue, virtue wins out.
- If you have to sacrifice health to virtue, virtue wins out.
- And this is, of course, both a virtue and a vice.
- So the first sacred virtue is humility.
- Questions as spiritual virtues and civic tools.
- It's why Paul says that the highest virtues are faith, hope and love.
- It nothing can prevent you from practising virtue, from being your best self.
- In the same way it's a virtue, but not an obligation.
- Compromise has often been seen as a virtue, not as a sign of weakness.
- So we think about the virtues like honesty, courage.
- You write at the start that while grit is a virtue, quitting is a vice.
- We do not see any virtue in anybody being in pain.
- You have to see who you are and see the virtue and see the power in that.
- It's part of what virtue is for to him.
Examples
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It's why Paul says that the highest virtues are faith, hope and love.
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Well, one of the greatest of all human virtues is forgiveness.
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We do not see any virtue in anybody being in pain.
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I think that one of them is the virtue of simplicity.
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Obama appealed to virtue, and I think he was right.
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We teach that virtue lies in avoiding excess.
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I thought I'd study one single virtue, trustworthiness.
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Patience is not one of my virtues.
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So we think about the virtues like honesty, courage.
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Between these, says Aristotle, lies the virtue of friendliness.
Synonyms
498
2.2
Respect given to a person for good moral behavior
203
6.1
Actions or qualities that are right and help others
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1.0
Kind, honest, and fair behaviour in a person
92
6.5
Being good and fair in how you act
19
5.0
Being morally good and acting with kindness and honor
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5.1
A state of being morally good and fair in actions
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6.6
Being kind and honest in a way people respect
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6.9
Being honest and doing what is right
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6.1
Being very good at doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
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7.4
A quality of being honest and fair that earns respect
A quality of thinking and acting with high moral standards and fairness
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
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8.9
One of the four main moral qualities: careful thinking, fairness, self-control, and courage
- Specialized
1
9.9
God-given gifts of faith, hope, or love that help people be saved
- Formal
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9.9
A moral quality people can have by nature, not given by God, like justice
How Virtuous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Virtue comes from the Latin root vir, which means 'man' and at first meant 'manly strength' or 'courage'. So the idea of strength grew into the idea of a 'good or admirable quality', and that is why we call honesty or kindness a virtue.