Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit;
valor.
Active quality or power; capacity or power
adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
Energy or influence operating without contact of
the material or sensible substance.
Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness;
worth.
Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of
character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
A particular moral excellence; as, the
virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the
chastity of women; virginity.
One of the orders of the celestial
hierarchy.