virtue
Example Sentences
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One virtue of the California proposal is that, even if it fails to get enacted or even to reach the ballot, it may trigger more discussion of options for taxing plutocratic fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times
Fulfillment through a good job is a virtue — and part of what makes the U.S. exceptional.
From MarketWatch
In the modern era, the British heritage of common law, freedom of speech and personal virtue didn’t constrain innovation but produced it.
Her essay on Albert Camus’s journals begins, “great writers are either husbands or lovers”—the former supply “solid virtues” and the latter “an infusion of intense feeling.”
As a virtue it is close to my heart.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
