virtuous

adj
/ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəs/UK/ˈvɝt͡ʃuəs/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from virtūs
  2. derived from virtuōsus
  3. derived from vertuous
  4. inherited from vertuous

Definitions

  1. 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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA