noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extol the virtues/benefits etc of sth
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a speech extolling the merits of free enterprise
paragon of virtue
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a paragon of virtue
preach the virtues/merits/benefits of sth
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a politician preaching the virtues of a free market
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civic
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If we're selling it, we'd better point out that it's a starting-point for civic virtue .
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Is the kind of thinking required for scientific experimentation the same kind required for civic virtue ?
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Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue .
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The problem here is how can social cohesion and civic virtue be promoted?
easy
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Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
great
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So there were great virtues in decentralisation and democratic accountability at all levels in any society.
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The great virtue of mail-in elections, according to their promoters, is that they make voting as easy as possible.
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But what a great virtue I had made of avoiding their names these last few years.
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Judges themselves claim this as their great virtue and only occasionally is it seen to be departed from.
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A hands-off approach to macroeconomic management has the great virtue of leaving both hands free for microeconomic tasks.
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In other contexts, Terkel's great virtue is his ability to leave subjects rich and ravelled.
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But what price humaneness, that great virtue of the Enlightenment, if animals were mere things?
moral
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There's no moral virtue in the truth of most of our true beliefs.
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What Phokylides was saying is that human virtue is moral virtue.
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Was it, perhaps, that they were of higher moral virtue than other men?
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Healthy development in women was thus signified by an attachment to their prescribed sphere and by the manifestation of moral virtue .
traditional
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Many convey in the physical appearance of their subjects the traditional Roman virtues of austerity and respect for authority.
■ VERB
extol
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The following speech extols the virtues of order and degree.
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The appraiser went on for some time, extolling the virtues of the scholarship.
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But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.
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At news conferences in each town, he dutifully steps to the podium and extols the virtues of such a noteworthy matchup.
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The tutor extols the virtues of this approach and you, of course, agree.
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We have had several letters from readers extolling the virtues of ponies, and how many are having enormous fun with them.
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Since the war, each time the Conservative Party has come into power it has extolled the virtues of the market.
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This man drinks alone, perhaps because he has driven away all his companions by extolling the virtues of his bank.
make
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A New World makes many virtues out of small things.
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But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.
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Her faults are my faults: her virtues I must make my virtues.
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Would it be so hard to make a simple virtue out of this bizarre necessity?
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What I did was to make a virtue of my misery.
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Limited government makes virtue possible by creating a framework for free action.
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Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.
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Unable to face their fate, they make of it a virtue .
preach
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He may preach the virtues of an empty bank account, but Damon is fairly obsessed with filling his own.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
model of efficiency/virtue etc
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Mr. Howard I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is citing Lambeth council as a model of efficiency and good practice.
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The police, when they arrived, were models of efficiency and solicitude.
woman/lady/girl of easy virtue
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Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Among their many virtues, they are always direct and honest.
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heroic virtues
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Women have often been used as symbols of virtue and nobility.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Such a conclusion to a hunting trip is evidence that the man is endowed with proper male virtue .
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They believed in the virtues of culture, civilization and reason.
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They forget all the old virtues, which weren't real virtues anyway.
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Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.