Virtuous is “good” with a halo. If you call someone virtuous, you are saying that person is living according to high moral standards. Someone virtuous is who you want leading your Girl Scout troop.
Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
Adjective S.
in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"
Adjective S.
behaving according to standards of what is right or just; "led a virtuous (or moral) life"
Adjective S.
of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
Adjective
morally excellent
a.
Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
a.
Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant;
brave.
a.
Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative;
efficacious; potent.
a.
Having moral excellence; characterized by morality;
upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.
a.
Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
Virtuous
Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous.
Lifting up his virtuous staff on high, He smote the sea, which calm'82d was with speed.
Every virtuous plant and healing herb.
The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, conscience.2.
Mistress Ford . . . the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband.--
Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
Usage Examples
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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Other Usage ExamplesBut when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
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