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Non-Virtue

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non-virtue; nonvirtue
       1.moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
       2.conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.
       3. (chastit}; virginity: to lose one's virtue.
       4.a particular moral excellence. Compare cardinal virtues, natural virtue, theological virtue.
       5.a good or admirable quality or property: the virtue of knowing one's weaknesses.

1. the quality or practice of moral excellence or righteousness
2. a particular moral excellence: the virtue of tolerance
3. any of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) or theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity)
4. any admirable quality, feature, or trait
5. chastity, esp in women
6. archaic an effective, active, or inherent power or force
7. by virtue of , in virtue of on account of or by reason of
8. make a virtue of necessity to acquiesce in doing something unpleasant with a show of grace because one must do it in any case

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