Meanings (ES + gloss)
virtud
A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person.
virtud
An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
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 […].
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.
virtud
Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her u…
Phrases
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