virtuous
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
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/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəs/
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/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəs/ · /ˈvɝt͡ʃuəs/
Definition of virtuous
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
“Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.”
“Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.”
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Etymology
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtuōsus, from Latin virtūs. By surface analysis, virtue + -ous. Doublet of virtuoso and piecewise doublet of virtùous.
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