Virtuous

a.	1.	Possessing or exhibiting virtue.
	2.	Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous. - Chapman.
	2.	Chaste; pure; - applied especially to women. Mistress Ford . . . the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband. - Shak.
	3.	Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent. Lifting up his virtuous staff on high, He smote the sea, which calméd was with speed. - Spenser. Every virtuous plant and healing herb. - Milton.
	4.	Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action. The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, conscience. - Milton.

Adj.	1.	virtuous - of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass Synonyms: upright, just, good
	2.	virtuous - morally excellent Antonyms: wicked - morally bad in principle or practice
	3.	virtuous - behaving according to standards of what is right or just; "led a virtuous (or moral) life"
	4.	virtuous - in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, pure

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