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📖 Определения и значения для слова virtue

📒 behaviour or attitudes that show high moral standards

  • He led a life of virtue.
  • She was certainly no paragon of virtue (= her moral standards were very far from perfect).
  • It would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel jealous.

📒 a particular good quality or habit

  • Patience is not one of her virtues, I'm afraid.
  • As a politician, he always emphasized the virtues of compromise and conciliation.
  • He taught his children to practise/​practice the virtues of temperance and chastity.

📒 an attractive or useful quality

  • The plan has the virtue of simplicity.
  • He was extolling the virtues of the internet.
  • They could see no virtue in discussing it further.

📒 by means of or because of something

  • She got the job by virtue of her greater experience.

📒 to manage to present as a good quality something that other people might consider to be bad

  • There are artists who make a virtue of repetition.

📒 to manage to gain an advantage from something that you have to do and cannot avoid

  • She decided to make a virtue of necessity and combined a business trip to Paris with a visit to her cousins there.

📒 willing to have sex with anyone

  • a woman of easy virtue

📒 the reward for acting in a moral or correct way is the knowledge that you have done so, and you should not expect more than this, for example praise from other people or payment

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