virtue
- virtue
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ cardinal, great, important, real
▪ chief, primary
▪ heroic
▪ inherent
▪ There is, of course. no inherent virtue in moderation.
▪ The Slavophiles believed in the inherent virtue of the Russian people.
▪ old-fashioned, traditional
▪ He understands the traditional virtue of hard work.
▪ Christian, ethical, moral, theological
▪ the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity
▪ intellectual, political, social
▪ civic, public
▪ Machiavelli's idea of civic virtue
▪ domestic
▪ She was seen as a paragon of domestic virtue.
▪ personal (esp. AmE), private
▪ human
▪ female, feminine, manly, masculine
▪ easy
▪ women of easy virtue (= with low standards of sexual morality)
VERB + VIRTUE
▪ have, possess
▪ Her book has the cardinal virtue of simplicity.
▪ embody
▪ Philippe embodies the French virtues of charm and grace.
▪ cultivate, practise/practice
▪ He taught his children to practise/practice the virtues of temperance and chastity.
▪ espouse, extol, preach, promote, tout (esp. AmE)
▪ He never stops extolling the virtues of the free market.
▪ inculcate, teach
▪ celebrate
▪ a story celebrating the virtues of democracy
PHRASES
▪ make a virtue of necessity (= to manage to gain an advantage from sth you have to do and cannot avoid)
▪ a paragon of virtue
▪ It would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel jealous.
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