virtues

/ -tʃuːz, ˈvɜːtjuːz /

plural noun

1. (often capital) the fifth of the nine orders into which the angels are traditionally divided in medieval angelology

Example Sentences

Sacks, a libertarian who extols the virtues of a Darwinian free market, is riding high off the AI world’s embrace of the president’s policies.

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The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.

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That transparency has made him the idol of young Catalans - not because he embodies La Masia's traditional virtues of discretion and hard work, but precisely because he breaks them.

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Next, the virtues of an ideal loaded fry plate.

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Here’s what history tells us about the virtues of this idea for the United States: There aren’t any.

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