"a genuinely good person""a just cause""an upright and respectable man""the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass
2. morally excellent
3. behaving according to standards of what is right or just;
"led a virtuous (or moral) life"
4. in a state of sexual virginity;
"pure and vestal modesty""a spinster or virgin lady""men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"