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virtue  (virtues plural )
1  n-uncount Virtue is thinking and doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.  (=goodness)  (Antonym: vice)  She could have established her own innocence and virtue easily enough.  
2  n-count A virtue is a good quality or way of behaving. 
His virtue is patience...  
3  n-count The virtue of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else. 
There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come...  
4  prep-phrase You use by virtue of to explain why something happens or is true. 
FORMAL The article stuck in my mind by virtue of one detail...  
5 If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to. 
♦ make a virtue of  phrase 
The movie makes a virtue out of its economy.