DEFINITION
VIRTUE:
• (n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
• (n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as,
the virtue of a medicine.
• (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
• (n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
• (n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
• (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc.
• (n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of
women; virginity.
• (n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.