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1. The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
   - virtuousness, moral excellence
    
2. Any admirable quality or attribute
   "work of great virtue";
   - merit
    
3. Morality with respect to sexual relations
   - chastity, sexual morality
    
4. A particular moral excellence

Derived forms: virtues

See also: chaste, unchaste

Type of: good, goodness, morality, worth

Encyclopedia: Virtue Virtue, liberty, and independence