(n.) Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
(n.) Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
(n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
(n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc.
(n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of
women; virginity.
(n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
