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.