virtue

Without virtue, there is no freedom.

Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known […] .

The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.

There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.

Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers; / For in possession such, not only of right, / I call ye, and declare ye now […].

though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.

There was a virtue in the wave;

His limbs, that, stiff with toil,

Dragg’d heavy, from the copious draught receiv’d

Lightness and supple strength.