Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An old spelling of virtuous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Virtuous; powerful.

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  • adjective Obsolete spelling of virtuous.

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Examples

  • Ed.; Q, her vertuous service; vertuous, which is obviously hypermetrical, has been repeated by mistake from the previous line.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • It is balanced in contrasts: dawn and dusk, blooming and withering, sweet spring, and its close, a soul and its 'vertuous' reward - life, when all else may be turned to coal.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Poetic Virtue and Dr. Hardcastle tanita davis 2008

  • It is balanced in contrasts: dawn and dusk, blooming and withering, sweet spring, and its close, a soul and its 'vertuous' reward - life, when all else may be turned to coal.

    Archive 2008-04-01 a. fortis 2008

  • This Woman seem'd very prudent, vertuous and just in all her Actions, and educated the young Gentlewoman accordingly, that she appear'd a fine well behav'd

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Affections, which he found impossible to conquer, or bring into any bounds of Reason; the Gypsie's vertuous and generous Deportment, in desiring to be dismissed, rather than blemish her Lady's Family with such an unworthy

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • I met her according to Appointment; and not to clog your vertuous Ears with what amorous Nonsence pass'd, she told me, she had found a House for our purpose, in a Quarter of the Town where neither of us were known.

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  • Old Romances, said she to her self, we find strange and improbable Performances, very surprizing Turns and Rencounters; yet still all tended to vertuous Ends, and the Abhorrence of Vice; But here is the

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Ah, happy is the Man that has a vertuous and beautiful Wife:

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  • We will suppose, that his Thoughts met with great Obstacles on the other side, to think how he should ruine a vertuous young Gentlewoman, expose the Child he had by her arm all her Relations with Revenge, and disoblige his own Family.

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  • Oh, Wretch that I am, said he to himself, thus to leave this lovely Innocent, the Pledge of his Mother's tender Love! and thus to part from a faithful vertuous Woman; to leave her to the Censure of this World, as if guilty of some heinous

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

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