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Meanings of great virtue in English

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Usage of great virtue in English
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Miss Shenstone was thin, methodical, devoted; of small speech and great virtue.
Harvest
2
Your great virtue is making me go beyond the bounds of chastity.
The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc
3
Greatness demands self-assertion; self-assertion is a great virtue even in a Julius II.
Albert Dürer
4
Patience was the great virtue for Australia on the first day.
The Irish Times
5
There is often great virtue in such technical phrases in shaping public opinion.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 / A Maga...
6
Bresnan rarely lets the side down, his reliability a great virtue.
The Guardian
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As against the latter, it is the great virtue of Chastity.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
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The great virtue of the claymore is that it is a directional mine.
Secret Sanction
9
It looks like an ordinary carpet, but it has great virtue.
Filipino Popular Tales
10
You make a great virtue of what was simply an enjoyment to herself.
Fairy Fingers / A Novel
11
Socrates not only enjoined temperance as a great virtue, but he practised it.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations
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Parsimony was her great virtue, and a power of saving her strong point.
Orley Farm
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That superstition originated at a time when great virtue was ascribed to numbers.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
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It's a remarkable name, Titania Chapman: there must be great virtue in prunes!
The Haunted Bookshop
15
There is great virtue in an Ave said in the Camp of the Saints.
The Land of Little Rain
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There is great virtue in the inherited industrial aptitudes and instincts of the people.
Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
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