Englishvirtue
noun
1 the simple virtue and integrity of peasant life:
goodness, virtuousness, righteousness, morality, ethicalness, uprightness, upstandingness, integrity, dignity, rectitude, honesty, honorableness, honorability, honor, incorruptibility, probity, propriety, decency, respectability, nobility, nobility of soul/spirit, nobleness, worthiness, worth, good, trustworthiness, meritoriousness, irreproachableness, blamelessness, purity, pureness, lack of corruption, merit;
principles, high principles, ethics.
▷antonyms vice, iniquity.
2 promptness was not one of his virtues:
good point, good quality, strong point, strong suit, long suit, asset, forte, attribute, advantage, benefit, strength, talent;
informal plus.
▷antonyms failing.
3 dated she lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city:
virginity, honor, maidenhood, maidenhead, chastity, chasteness, purity, pureness, lack of sin, sinlessness, spotlessness, wholesomeness, innocence, decency, virtuousness, respectability, dignity, modesty;
celibacy, abstinence, self-restraint, self-denial;
informal cherry;
Theology immaculateness;
rare continence.
▷antonyms promiscuity.
4 I can see no virtue in such an arrangement:
merit, advantage, benefit, usefulness, efficacy, efficaciousness, power, potency, force, strength.
▷antonyms disadvantage.
□ by virtue of
they hold the posts by virtue of family connections:
because of, on account of, by reason of, by dint of, by means of, by way of, via, through, as a result of, as a consequence of, on the strength of, owing to, thanks to, due to, based on;
with the help of, with the aid of, with the assistance of;
British off the back of.