vertu

[ ver-too, vur-too ]

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noun

vertu

/ vɜːˈtuː /

Voltaire describes his hero “qui tient sous la clef, la vertu de sa femme.”

La virginit n'est pas une vertu, c'est un tat; c'est une sous-division des couleurs.

Wherfore I maye iustelye conclude, that true felicity doth consist in wisdome and vertu.

Item, Esperaunce is a noble vertu, be the quhilk Knychtis traistis to haue the victory in battail and in feicht.

It was one of those little pet objects of vertu, to which a bachelor sometimes treats himself in lieu of domestic luxuries.

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