Virtuous: Definition and part of speech

Virtuous

a. Chaste; pure; — applied especially to women.
a. Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
a. Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
a. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
a. Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. An art or study affected by virtuosos.
n. The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
n. Virtuosos, collectively.

n. A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
n. One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

adv. In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

n. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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.