(~s)
1.
Virtue is thinking and doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.
She could have established her own innocence and ~ easily enough.
= goodness
? vice
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A ~ is a good quality or way of behaving.
His ~ is patience...
Humility is considered a ~.
N-COUNT
3.
The ~ of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else.
There was no ~ in returning to Calvi the way I had come...
N-COUNT
4.
You use by ~ of to explain why something happens or is true. (FORMAL)
The article stuck in my mind by ~ of one detail...
PREP-PHRASE
5.
If you make a ~ 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 ~ out of its economy.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n