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Strength :: Strength (n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids..

Astringent :: Astringent (a.) Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue..

Hypocrite :: Hypocrite (n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety..

Remitter :: Remitter (n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit..

Degree :: Degree (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison..

Debauchment :: Debauchment (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Virtue :: Virtue (n.) One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

Percolation :: Percolation (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it..

Frail :: Frail (superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women..

Probity :: Probity (n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

Exaltation :: Exaltation (n.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property..

Injure :: Injure (v. t.) To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind..

Scoundrel :: Scoundrel (n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Default :: Default (n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.

Declension :: Declension (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc..

Exercise :: Exercise (n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc..

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee..

Well-being :: Well-being (n.) The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society..

Extol :: Extol (v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person..

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