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virtue

Best crossword clue

"Moral excellence"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈvɜːt͡ʃuː/Part of speech nounSorted eirtuvStarts with VEnds with E2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

Word origin

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. In this sense, displaced Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

Used in a sentence

  • Without virtue, there is no freedom.
  • 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.
  • “Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Moral excellence6 letters
02Moral goodness6 letters

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