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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS:
    • IPA: [ˈvəɹt.juː]
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈvəː.tjuː/
    • IPA: /ˈvəː.tʃuː/

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Substantiivit

  1. (obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
  2. The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).
  3. (uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
  4. A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
  5. 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.
  6. An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
  7. A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.
  8. (uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.

Esimerkit

  • many Egyptians still worry that the Brotherhood, by virtue of discipline and experience, would hold an unfair advantage if elections were held too soon.
  • There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.
  • Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known [...].
  • The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.
  • There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.
  • One virtue of the present coalition government's attack on access to education could be to reopen the questions raised so pertinently by Robinson in the 1960s [...].
  • Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers; / For in possession such, not only of right, / I call ye, and declare ye now [...].
  • though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.
  • by the virtue of...

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