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    Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
    strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
    {Virile}, and cf. {Virtu}.]
    1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
    [Obs.] --Shak.

    Built too strong
    For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.

    2. 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.

    Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
    had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.

    A man was driven to depend for his security against
    misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
    syntax. --De Quincey.

    The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.

    3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
    material or sensible substance.

    She moves the body which she doth possess,
    Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
    J. Davies.

    4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

    I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.

    In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
    better observed than in Terence, who thought the
    sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
    of sentences. --B. Jonson.

    5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
    purity of soul; performance of duty.

    Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.

    If there's Power above us,
    And that there is all nature cries aloud
    Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
    --Addison.

    6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
    temperance, of charity, etc. ``The very virtue of
    compassion.'' --Shak. ``Remember all his virtues.''
    --Addison.

    7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
    of women; virginity.

    H. I believe the girl has virtue.
    M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
    world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.

    8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

    Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
    --Milton.

    {Cardinal virtues}. See under {Cardinal}, a.

    {In virtue of}, or {By virtue of}, through the force of; by
    authority of. ``He used to travel through Greece by virtue
    of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
    towns.'' --Addison. ``This they shall attain, partly in
    virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
    piety.'' --Atterbury.

    {Theological virtues}, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
    charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.

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