transcription, транскрипция: [ vɜ:(r)tʃu: ]
( virtues)
1.
Virtue is thinking and doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.
She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.
= goodness
≠ vice
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2.
A virtue is a good quality or way of behaving.
His virtue is patience...
Humility is considered a virtue.
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3.
The virtue of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else.
There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come...
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4.
You use by virtue of to explain why something happens or is true. ( FORMAL )
The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail...
PREP-PHRASE
5.
If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
The movie makes a virtue out of its economy.
PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n