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Etymology
From Middle English vartu, from Old French vertu, from Latin virtūtem.
Pronunciation
Noun
vartue
- virtue
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 19-21:—t'avance pace an livertie, an, wi'oute vlynch, ee garde o' generale reights an poplare vartue.- to promote peace and liberty—the uncompromising guardian of common right and public virtue.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114