advantage vs virtue

advantage

noun
  • Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit 

  • The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position. 

  • Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end. 

  • The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game. 

  • Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). 

verb
  • to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of 

  • to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to 

virtue

noun
  • An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage. 

  • A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels. 

  • Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct. 

  • A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality. 

  • Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins. 

  • Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity. 

  • The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases). 

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