What is the meaning of VIRTUE. Phrases containing VIRTUE
See meanings and uses of VIRTUE!Slangs & AI meanings
Girl (usu.) of "easy virtue", i.e. could be "ridden" by anyone.
Bike (derogatory term for a woman of easy virtue)
(1) girl (usu.) supposedly of "easy virtue", i.e. available for sexual purposes when required. (2) used by women to describe extra layers of fat on their hips, e.g. "I've got to get rid of these saddle bags.".
A property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war.
When in port, and with the crew restricted to the ship for any extended period of time, wives and ladies of easy virtue often were allowed to live aboard along with the crew. Infrequently, but not uncommonly, children were born aboard, and a convenient place for this was between guns on the gun deck.
(1) heroin user (2) Insult based on comparing person to someone suffering from mental illness that causes them to self harm (3) similar to '2' but with the implication the person is in fact below normal intelligence levels by virtue of being 'punch drunk' from too many smacks to the head.
Cherry pie
Add cherry syrup to a soda
Woman of easy virtue
Cherry pie
Add cherry syrup to a soda
, as in “She skates around plenty†To be of easy virtue
A fighter with a glass jaw A woman of easy virtue
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Crack user looking for drugs on the floor after a police raid
A show off, a person who displays all the qualities of a clown. 2. A person who wears gaudy or showy clothes. See also Mug Lair
Bungalow is British slang for a well endowered, but stupid, man.
Codeine cough syrup
Person who indulges in cocaine use. Name derives from the 'gagging' sound as the coke hits the back of the throat.
Fluke is slang for a lucky success.
Blooth is Dorset slang for blossom.
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Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
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Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty; as, the Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute.
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The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
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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.
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Virtue; power. See Virtue.
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Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.
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A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
v. t.
To make efficacious; to give virtue of efficacy.
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One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
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A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
v. t.
To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.
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One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence. Called also ubiquitist, and ubiquitary.
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Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
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Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.
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The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe.
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Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
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Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
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