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['və: u:]1) (a good moral quality: Honesty is a virtue.) vrlina2) (a good quality: The house is small, but it has the virtue of being easy to clean.) prednost3) (goodness of character etc: She is a person of great virtue.) krepost•- virtuous- virtuously
- virtuousness* * *[vɜ:tju, -ču:]nounkrepost, vrlina, čednost, odlika; figuratively čistost, nedolžnost, neoporečnost; dobra lastnost; sposobnost; vrlost; prednost, visoka vrednost; delovanje, učinkovitost, uspeh; obsolete pogum, duh (moža)without virtue — brezuspešno, brez učinkaby virtue of — s pomočjo; na temelju (česa)in virtue of — zaradi, na temeljua lady of easy virtue — lahkomiselna, nekrepostna žena
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