virtuous

英 ['vɜːtjʊəs; -tʃʊəs] 美['vɝtʃuəs]

• adj. 善良的；有道德的；贞洁的；正直的；有效力的

1. of moral excellence;

"a genuinely good person"

"a just cause"

"an upright and respectable man"

"the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass

2. morally excellent

3. behaving according to standards of what is right or just;

"led a virtuous (or moral) life"

4. in a state of sexual virginity;

"pure and vestal modesty"

"a spinster or virgin lady"

"men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"