virtue

vertu, qualité

Bonne qualité du caractère d’une personne, comme l’honnêteté ou la patience.

En anglais simple : A good quality in a person’s character, such as honesty or patience.

• Patience is a useful virtue.
• Honesty was one of her greatest virtues.
• He has many virtues, including kindness.

Synonymes : good quality, strength

Contraires : vice

Expressions courantes : a virtue, virtue of patience, personal virtue

avantage, mérite

Aspect utile ou positif d’une personne ou d’une chose.

En anglais simple : A useful or good feature of someone or something.

• The phone has the virtue of being easy to use.
• This method has several virtues.
• Her proposal has one clear virtue: simplicity.

Comment l'utiliser : the virtue of something (The main virtue of this plan is its low cost.)

Synonymes : advantage, merit, strength

Contraires : drawback

Expressions courantes : virtue of something, chief virtue, great virtue

vertu, droiture

Qualité d’une personne qui se conduit bien et fait ce qui est moralement juste.

En anglais simple : The quality of behaving well and doing what is morally right.

• She believed in the value of virtue.
• Their laws were meant to encourage virtue.
• We admired his virtue as well as his courage.

Synonymes : goodness, moral integrity

Contraires : vice

Expressions courantes : moral virtue, life of virtue, virtue and vice