virtue (redirected from in virtue)

vir·tue  (vûrch)

n.

1.

a. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.

b. 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. virtues Christianity The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

6. Obsolete Manly courage; valor.

Idiom:

by/in virtue of

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

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[Middle English vertu, from Old French, from Latin virts, manliness, excellence, goodness, from vir, man; see w-ro- in Indo-European roots.]

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virtue

Noun

1. moral goodness

2. a positive moral quality: the virtue of humility

3. an advantage or benefit: the added virtue of being harmless

4. chastity, esp. in women

5. by virtue of by reason of; because of: they escaped execution by virtue of their high rank [Latin virtus manliness, courage]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	virtue - the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong moral excellence, virtuousness good, goodness - moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"
	2.	virtue - any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit" merit worth - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
	3.	virtue - morality with respect to sexual relations sexual morality, chastity morality - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct pureness, purity, honor, honour - a woman's virtue or chastity
	4.	virtue - a particular moral excellence cardinal virtue - one of the seven preeminent virtues good, goodness - moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"

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virtue

noun 1. goodness, honour, integrity, worth, dignity, excellence, morality, honesty, decency, respectability, nobility, righteousness, propriety, probity, rectitude, worthiness, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, uprightness, virtuousness, ethicalness << OPPOSITE vice

noun 2. merit, strength, asset, plus (informal) attribute, good quality, good point, strong point << OPPOSITE failing

3. advantage, benefit, merit, credit, usefulness, efficacy

noun 4. chastity, honour, virginity, innocence, purity, maidenhood, chasteness << OPPOSITE unchastity >> by virtue of because of, in view of, on account of, based on, thanks to, as a result of, owing to, by reason of, by dint of

Translations

virtue [ˈvəːtjuː] n → virtud f;

by virtue of → en virtud de

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virtue [ˈvəːtjuː] n → vertu f (= advantage); mérite m, avantage m;

by virtue of → en vertu or raison de

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virtue [ˈvəːtjuː] n → Tugend f;

(advantage) → Vorzug m;

by virtue of → aufgrund +gen

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virtue [ˈvəːtjuː] n → virtù f inv (= advantage); pregio, vantaggio;

by virtue of → grazie a