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词汇 example_english_chief-virtue
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chief virtue

collocation in English

meanings of chiefand virtue


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chief
adjective[before noun]
uk /tʃiːf/ us /tʃiːf/
most important ...
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virtue
noun
uk /ˈvɜː.tʃuː/ us /ˈvɝː.tʃuː/
a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being ...
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Examples of chief virtue


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This, indeed, is the chiefvirtue of the book under review.
The chiefvirtue of this book is both its extraordinary range and the clarity of exposition.
This received text was and is a good one, but its chiefvirtue has been its stability.
And is it not the chiefvirtue of a theory that it unifies into a coherent explanation the phenomena of which it purports to be an account?
It is its chiefvirtue.
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Hansard archive

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I wish to make the observation that the weight of the invitation to tender document is probably its chiefvirtue.
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Joseph's charter prescribed a monk's chiefvirtue as absolute obedience to his abbot.
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Its chief virtues were its usefulness, respectability and intelligence, and it sought no longer to defend the lower classes but to bring about their moral correction.
I believe that one of the chief virtues of the independent sector of education is that it provides parents with the widest possible variety of choice.
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Hansard archive

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Her chief virtues were "frugalitas, severitas" and "fidelis" frugality, sternness, and faithfulness.
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