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VIRTUE

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virtue substantiv

1. virtute;

to make a virtue of necessity a fi virtuos de nevoie, a transforma necesitatea în virtute.

2. castitate, curăţenie;

a woman of virtue o femeie cinstită;

of easy virtue de moravuri uşoare.

3. merit, valoare, excelenţă, capacitate, destoinicie, iscusinţă; bunătate;

she has every virtue are toate calităţile;

negative virtue virtute pasivă;

(proverb) virtue is her / its own reward virtutea e propria ei recompensă.

4. forţă, putere, acţiune, eficacitate;

a remedy of great virtue un relnediu de mare eficacitate;

by / in virtue of în virtutea (cu gen.), mulţumită (cu dat.), datorită (cu dat.).

5. (înv.) vitejie, bravură.

6. proprietate, însuşire, calitate;

the virtue of resisting temperature proprietatea de a rezista la temperatură înaltă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Let us pray to God that we may ever hold their virtues.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"What virtues do you most admire in a man?" asked Sallie.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But make a virtue of it by all means.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He said Traddles's was a character, to the steady virtues of which he (Mr. Micawber) could lay no claim, but which, he thanked Heaven, he could admire.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I have not developed any new strength nor virtue. My brain is the same old brain.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Houyhnhnms; and these not confined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race; for a stranger from the remotest part is equally treated with the nearest neighbour, and wherever he goes, looks upon himself as at home.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He has one positive virtue.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the most peculiar virtue of all lay in the fact that the dog that strove to attack one in front of him must pull the sled faster, and that the faster the sled travelled, the faster could the dog attacked run away.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

She gloried in being a sailor's wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Marianne would not let her proceed;—and Elinor, satisfied that each felt their own error, wished to avoid any survey of the past that might weaken her sister's spirits; she, therefore, pursuing the first subject, immediately continued, One observation may, I think, be fairly drawn from the whole of the story—that all Willoughby's difficulties have arisen from the first offence against virtue, in his behaviour to Eliza Williams.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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