virtuous
adjEtymology
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtuōsus, from Latin virtūs. By surface analysis, virtue + -ous. Doublet of virtuoso and piecewise doublet of virtùous.
Definitions
Full of virtue
Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
- Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.
- Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at virtuous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at virtuous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at virtuous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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