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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
virtue From the web:
- what virtue means
- what virtue is the opposite of wrath
- what virtue is the foundation of prayer
- what virtues are there
- what virtues are given directly by god
- what virtue is the opposite of envy
- what virtue signaling
- what virtue does society demand
efficiency
English
Etymology
From Latin efficientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f??n?si/
Noun
efficiency (countable and uncountable, plural efficiencies)
- The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
- Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
- (dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.
- Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
- (US) A one-room apartment.
- Synonyms: efficiency apartment, (UK, Ireland) bedsit
Hyponyms
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Translations
References
- efficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
efficiency From the web:
- what efficiency means
- what efficiency furnace should i buy
- what efficiency is my furnace
- what efficiency of labour
- what efficiency is the pfizer vaccine
- what efficiency in physics
- what efficiency is in terms of work and heat
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