How do you use the word "virtue" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "virtue" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "virtue": She became rich by virtue of hard work and good business sense. Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Virtue Meaning

/ˈvɜːt͡ʃuː/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

noun(uncountable) The idea of all that is good or excellent (in every sense of those terms) in a human being, collectively instantiated by a varying number of human traits known as "the virtues", the enumeration of which vary by the many virtue systems which have developed within different cultures, religions, and historical periods.

nounAccordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.

Sentence Examples

She became rich by virtue of hard work and good business sense.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

He led a life of virtue.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

merit chastity

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Honesty is a moral ____ that everyone should try to practice daily.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Patience is a ____ that is essential for achieving success in any long-term and very difficult professional project today.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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, chapter 1, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XV:

"“Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.”" — 2004 October 1, “Eight-and-a-Half-Tails”, in Champions of Kamigawa, Wizards of the Coast:

"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, section XLIV:

"The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society." — 1813, John Fleetwood, The Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ:

"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." — 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

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