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Definitions: Virtuously |
VirtuouslyAdverb1. In a moral manner; "he acted morally under the circumstances". 2. In a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "virtuously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: VirtuouslySynonyms: chastely (adv), morally (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: immorally (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Virtue | Adverb: virtuously; Adjective: e merito. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Niccolo Machiavelli | The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. |
Sheridan | That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Virtuously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Virtuously" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "virtuously": ad virtuously. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "virtuously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | vertueusement. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | tugendhafte, tugendhaft (lily white, moral, morally, virtuous). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | onestamente (fairly, frankly, honestly, straightforwardly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irtuouslyvay kraftigt (considerably, forcibly, hard, heavily, powerfully, richly, stiffly, sturdily). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Pollai qugatereV ekthsanto plouton pollai epoihsan dunata su de uperkeisai kai uperhraV pasaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Res multae filiae congregaverunt divitias tu supergressa es universas |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Res. Manie doytris gedereden richesses; thou ouerpassedist alle. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Daghang mga anak nga babaye nga nanagbuhat sa pagkatakus gayud, Apan ikaw milabaw kanilang tanan. |
| Croatian | "Mnoge su žene bile vrsne, ali ti ih sve nadmašuješ." |
| Danish | "Mange duelige Kvinder findes, men du står over dem alle!" |
| Dutch | Resch. Vele dochteren hebben deugdelijke gehandeld; maar gij gaat die allen te boven. |
| Finnish | "Paljon on naisia, toimellisia menoissaan, mutta yli niitten kaikkien kohoat sinä". |
| French | Plusieurs filles ont une conduite vertueuse; Mais toi, tu les surpasses toutes. |
| German | "Viele Töchter halten sich tugendsam; du aber übertriffst sie alle." |
| Haitian Creole | L'ap di: Mwen konnen anpil madanm. Men ou menm, nanpwen tankou ou! |
| Hungarian | Sok leány munkálkodott serénységgel; de te meghaladod mindazokat! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Ada banyak wanita yang baik," kata suaminya, "tetapi engkau yang paling baik dari mereka semua." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Banyaklah anak perempuan yang telah baik dan berbudi kelakuannya, tetapi engkaulah meliputi akan mereka itu sekalian. |
| Italian | «Molte figlie hanno compiuto cose eccellenti, ma tu le hai superate tutte!». |
| Maori | He tokomaha nga tamahine i u te pai o ta ratou mahi, otiia hira ake tau i a ratou katoa. |
| Norwegian | Det finnes mange dyktige kvinner, men du overgår dem alle. |
| Portuguese | Reche. Muitas mulheres têm procedido virtuosamente, mas tu a todas sobrepujas. |
| Rumanian | ,,Multe fete au o purtare cinstitq, dar tu le kntreci pe toate.`` |
| Russian | `НОПЗП 'ЩМП ЦЕО "П'ТП"ЕФЕМШОЩИ, ОП ФЩ ТЕЧЪПЫМБ ЧУЕИ ЙИ`. |
| Spanish | "Muchas mujeres han hecho el bien, pero tú sobrepasas a todas." |
| Swedish | "Många idoga kvinnor hava funnits, men du, du övergår dem allasammans." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Virtuously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vituously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-o-r-s-t-u-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: virtuous. | |
-3 letters: rustily, troilus. | |
-4 letters: lyrist, rosily, sourly, stoury, suitor, sultry, triols, virtus. | |
-5 letters: ivory, lirot, loris, lotus, louis, lours, loury, lousy, louts, lusty, riots, roils, roily, rotis, rotls, roust, routs, rusty, ryots, silty, story, stour, stroy, styli, surly, tirls, tiros, toils, tolus, torsi, torus, tours, triol, trios, trois, troys, truly, tyros, usury, viols. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-o-r-s-t-u-u-v-y" | |
+3 letters: unobtrusively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 72 74 75 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01110010 01110100 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i r t u o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0072 0074 0075 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56758486878187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Bible Trace | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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