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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
feature
English
Etymology
From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin fact?ra. Doublet of facture.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fi?t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fit??/
- Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
Noun
feature (plural features)
- (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- An important or main item.
- (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- (film) Ellipsis of feature film
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
- (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
- (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.
- (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
- featural
- feature article
Translations
Further reading
- feature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Verb
feature (third-person singular simple present features, present participle featuring, simple past and past participle featured)
- (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- (transitive) To star, to contain.
- (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
- (transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
- More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
Translations
Middle English
Noun
feature
- Alternative form of feture
feature From the web:
- what feature is associated with a temperature inversion
- what feature occurs where plates converge
- what feature distinguishes this passage as a foreword
- what feature do platelets possess
- what characteristic is associated with a temperature inversion
- what are the causes of temperature inversion
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