Virtuous: Definition and part of speech

Virtuous

  1. a. Chaste; pure; — applied especially to women.
  2. a. Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
  3. a. Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.
  4. a. Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.
  5. 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.

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