virtues
SayVUR-chooz/ˈvəː.t͡ʃuːs/UK/ˈvɜː.t͡ʃuːz/
- 1Plural of virtue.
Patience and humility were the virtues he admired most in his colleagues.
The essay celebrated the quiet virtues of small-town life.
Note
A plural that exists only for the countable meanings. Goodness as a whole, or moral conduct in general, stays singular and uncounted. Once virtue names a trait, it can be listed: the four cardinal virtues, the three theological ones, the seven set against the deadly sins. The plural also carries the everyday sense of an advantage, as in the virtues of a plan, where nothing moral is implied.
virtues is a form of virtue
virtue, noun: Behavior and thought that conform to moral principles; good moral conduct. Full entry
- Forms
- virtuevirtues plural
- Spelling
- virtue → virtues: add -s
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