Usually means: Moral excellence, goodness, righteous behavior.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. virtue: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. virtue, virtue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. virtue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. virtue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. virtue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Virtue, virtue: Wordnik
  7. virtue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Virtue, virtue: Wiktionary
  9. virtue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. virtue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. virtue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. virtue: Dictionary.com
  13. virtue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. virtue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Virtue (Emmy the Great album), Virtue (The Voidz album), Virtue (Virtue album), Virtue (disambiguation), Virtue (film), Virtue (musical group), Virtue (software), Virtue (surname), Virtue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Virtue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. virtue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. virtue: Rhymezone
  19. virtue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. virtue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. virtue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. virtue: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. virtue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. virtue: Free Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. virtue: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virtue: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virtue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. virtue: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  2. virtue: Idioms
  3. virtue: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  4. Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buddhism Glossary (No longer online)
  2. VIRTUE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. virtue: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See virtueless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
noun:  A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
noun:  Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.
noun:  An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
noun:  (Christianity) A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and archangels, and below seraphim and cherubim.
noun:  (uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
noun:  (obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
noun:  The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).
noun:  A surname.

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