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Early Modern English: V

vertue

virtue, goodness

On the way to English virtue

  1. Latin · about 160 BCEvirtūs · strength, worth, excellence
  2. Middle English · about 1390vertu · power; goodness
  3. Early Modern English · 1623vertue · virtue, goodness
  4. English todayvirtue

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