what does virtuous mean?
VIRTUOUS as ADJECTIVE
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- in a state of sexual virginity
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- pure and vestal modesty
- a spinster or virgin lady
- men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
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- behaving according to standards of what is right or just
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- led a virtuous (or moral) life
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- 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
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