Noun
vertue (countable and uncountable, plural vertues)
Obsolete spelling of virtue
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. Mary Astell
Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue. William Penn
Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment. C. S. Lewis
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself. Mary Astell
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled. Mary Astell
Poverty parts good company, and is an enemy to vertue. Scottish Proverb