Synonym: chastity, merit, moral excellence, sexual morality, virtuousness. Similar words: by virtue of, make a virtue of necessity, virtual, virtually, virtuous, virtuosity, statue, tuesday. Meaning: ['vɜrtjuː /'vɜː-] n. 1. the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong 2. any admirable quality or attribute 3. morality with respect to sexual relations 4. a particular moral excellence.
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91. The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail.
92. She became a British resident by virtue of her marriage.
93. I had a couple of months to spare between jobs so I thought I'd make a virtue of necessity by acquiring a few new skills.
94. He had won the game in virtue of his strength of will.
95. There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come.
96. At the end of the book, virtue is rewarded and villainy punished.
97. The great virtue of camping is its cheapness/is that it is cheap.
98. Annes is a dame of dubious virtue.
99. This at least has the virtue of historical accuracy.
100. Silence is the virtue of fools. Francis Bacon
101. The ultimate virtue, I thought, is caring for others.
102. You were a decent woman once, prickly with virtue.
103. No virtue attached to that though.
104. Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. Confucius
105. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
106. People can not be bullied into virtue, or planned into honesty and industry.
107. To be dexterous in danger is a virtue; but to court danger to show it, is weakness. William Penn
108. Down on the factory floor,[http://sentencedict.com/virtue.html] automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.
109. Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
110. Unhappily, habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance.
111. Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. Brene Brown
112. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou
113. Such groups are constructed as the bearers of privileged knowledge or agency, by virtue of their social location.
114. To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace
115. Voice over Here it's a virtue to have no belief in what you say, bandying words is an admired skill.
116. The virtue of financial transaction was its power to rocket above other failures to communicate.
117. Objects, however, by virtue of their concrete nature, can never possess that entirely arbitrary and abstract capability.
118. It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority, and preserved by strict legalism.
119. But her father, in whom a sense of humour is not a very apparent virtue, remained reserved.
120. And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement, that may well be enough.
More similar words: by virtue of, make a virtue of necessity, virtual, virtually, virtuous, virtuosity, statue, tuesday, constituent, virus, dirt, virago, virile, mirth, flirt, dirty, birth, skirt, T-shirt, virulent, birthday, miniskirt, give birth, environment, perturb, aperture, nurture, start up, environmental, fortunate.