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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete spelling of
virtuous .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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