Virtue

1. n. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
2. n. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
3. 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.
4. n. Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
5. n. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
6. n. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
7. n. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
8. n. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.

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.