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Virtuousness

noun
1.
The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.  Synonyms: moral excellence, virtue.






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"Virtuousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... an instant upon such an occasion would he permit his precious box to quit his possession. It was to him an emblem of those virtues that no one knew but himself, wherefore the more he misdoubted his own virtuousness the more valuable did the token of that rectitude become in his eyes. "Yes, you may look at it," he would say, "but damme if you shall handle it. I would not," he would cry, "let the Devil himself take it out of ...
— Stolen Treasure • Howard Pyle

... look at them, not a newspaper that wasn't lowered. They were immediate objects of interest and curiosity, entirely benevolent interest and curiosity because nobody yet knew anything about them, and the wives of the rich husbands—those halves of the virtuous-rich unions which provided the virtuousness—smiled as they passed, and murmured nice words to each other like ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim



Words linked to "Virtuousness" :   moral excellence, virtuous, good, virtue, goodness



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