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Virtuousness

noun

The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. Synonyms: moral excellence, virtue.

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... striking arguments. If we had nothing better to oppose to it, we might indeed neutralize its effect by a counter-argument of Edwards himself, which we find in his celebrated work on the will. He there says, that the virtuousness of every virtuous act or choice depends upon its own nature, and not upon its origin or cause. If we must refer every virtuous act, says he, to something in us that is virtuous as its antecedent, we must likewise refer that antecedent to some other virtuous ...

— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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Words linked to "Virtuousness" : goodness, good, virtuous