Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

rectitude; integrity &c (probity) 939; nobleness &c 873. morals; ethics &c (duty) 926; cardinal virtues. merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c (resolution) 604; self-denial &c (temperance) 953. well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence &c 946. V. be virtuous &c adj.; practice virtue &c n.; do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise &c 926; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path. set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior. Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful†, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right- minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled†. exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike. Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito [Lat.]. Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat.] [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht [G.]; virtue the greatest of all monarchies [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam [Lat.].