noun /ˈvəː.tjuː,ˈvəː.tʃuː/
many Egyptians still worry that the Brotherhood, by virtue of discipline and experience, would hold an unfair advantage if elections were held too soon.
b) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
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.
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