Clues for the word "VIRTUE"
We've had 35 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 55 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on August 28, 2024.
Definition of virtue
- n. - Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
- n. - Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
- n. - Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
- n. - A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
- n. - Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
- n. - One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
Referring Clues
- Goodness
- Faith, Hope or Charity
- Good point
- Moral fiber
- Patience, e.g.
- Patience, for one
- Strong point
- Moral excellence
- Righteousness
- Rectitude
- 'Its own reward,' they say
- Moral strength
- Basis of morality
- Shaw defined it as "insufficient temptation"
- Faith, hope, or charity
- Good quality
- Vice antithesis
- Its own reward, proverbially
- Vice opposite
- Prudence, for one
- Patience, for example?
- Resistance by union blocking struggle for excellence
- True vice half-destroyed, surprisingly, by its opposite
- High-mindedness
- Chastity
- Admirable feature
- Strive to keep right, united in integrity
- Goodness! Six regret going round the West End!
- A woman's chastity is an admirable quality
- Soundly chased before losing it, was she?
- Classical man, most of the day, has quality
- Villain gesturing angrily unlikely to be this
- Patience, they say
- Selling point
- "Patience is a ___"
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - August 28, 2024
- Daily American - November 22, 2023
- Mirror Mini - August 28, 2023
- Daily American - April 20, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 17, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2022
- Mirror Mini - August 28, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 19, 2022
- Daily American - November 22, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 26, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 17, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - April 21, 2017
- Daily American - April 20, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - March 03, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 26, 2016
- Family Time - September 06, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 18, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 16, 2014
- Guardian Quick - April 12, 2014
- Universal - March 08, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - January 10, 2014
- Universal - August 24, 2012
- USA Today - August 14, 2012
- Washington Post - August 08, 2012
- New York Times - March 25, 2012
- LA Times - February 01, 2012
- Guardian Quick - January 03, 2012
- Netword - August 02, 2011
- And in 25 more crossword puzzles...