different between virtue vs acquirement
virtue
English
Alternative forms
- vertu, vertuu (obsolete), vertue (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English vertu, virtue, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertu, virtu, from Latin virtus (“manliness, bravery, worth, moral excellence”), from vir (“man”). Doublet of vertu. See virile.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??t?u?/, /-tju?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?t?u/
- Hyphenation: vir?tue
Noun
virtue (countable and uncountable, plural virtues)
- (uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. [from 13th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, XV.1:
- There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, XV.1:
- A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. [from 13th c.]
- 1766, Laurence Sterne, Sermon XLIV:
- Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known […] .
- 1766, Laurence Sterne, Sermon XLIV:
- 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. [from 14th c.]
- An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage. [from 14th c.]
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.
- 2011, The Guardian, Letter, 14 Mar 2011
- One virtue of the present coalition government's attack on access to education could be to reopen the questions raised so pertinently by Robinson in the 1960s […] .
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels. [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers; / For in possession such, not only of right, / I call ye, and declare ye now […] .
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- (uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being. [13th–19th c.]
- The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases). [from 13th c.]
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- There was a virtue in the wave;
His limbs, that, stiff with toil,
Dragg’d heavy, from the copious draught receiv’d
Lightness and supple strength.
- There was a virtue in the wave;
- 2011, "The autumn of the patriarchs", The Economist, 17 Feb 2011:
- many Egyptians still worry that the Brotherhood, by virtue of discipline and experience, would hold an unfair advantage if elections were held too soon.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
Synonyms
- douth (obsolete), thew
- See Thesaurus:goodness
Antonyms
- (excellence in morals): vice
- foible
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- aretaic
- paragon
Further reading
- virtue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- virtue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- virtue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Viruet
Middle English
Noun
virtue
- Alternative form of vertu
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acquirement
English
Etymology
From acquire +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??kwa??(?)m?nt/
Noun
acquirement (countable and uncountable, plural acquirements)
- (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment. [from 17th c.]
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, p. 4,[1]
- […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London: for the author, Volume 1, Letter 27, p. 177,[2]
- If she can think, that the part she has had in your education, and your own admirable talents and acquirements, are to be thrown away upon such a worthless creature as Solmes, I could heartily quarrel with her.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 1, Chapter 18, p. 305,[3]
- […] there was a degree of deference in his deportment toward that young gentleman which seemed to indicate that he felt himself conscious of a slight inferiority in point of genius and professional acquirements.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, p. 4,[1]
- The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition. [from 17th c.]
- […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […]
- 1952, Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
- At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably.
Synonyms
- (act of acquiring, or that which is acquired): acquisition
acquirement From the web:
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- what does acquirement mean
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- what does requirement mean
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- self acquired
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