Virtue Word Study

We use words that we read and hear to describe things and add value and texture to the ideas we are trying to convey, but we don't always understand the full meaning of the words we use. So from time to time I'll do a word study to educate the wise and bore the foolish. Sort yourselves out you know which you are. And if your foolish keep your pie hole shut and maybe no one will notice. Let's start with Virtue as in men of virtue. Noah Webster says: VIRTUE Vir"tue, n. Etym: [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See Virile, and cf. Virtu.] 1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. [Obs.] Shak. Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn. Roget's Super Thesaurus says: virtue adv. 1. MORALITY goodness, righteousness, uprightness, moral excellence, decency, character, integrity, incorruptibility, honor, Christian values, principle, ethic. “The fount whence honor springs.”—Christopher Marlowe. “Forebearance.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Reason in practice." In short, Virtue means manly excellence.......Good Word!