virtùous
/vˈɝtʃuəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Involving the cleverness and understanding to accomplish one's goals.
Example Sentences
- "For instance, in his virtù'''ous retelling of the David and Goliath story, Machiavelli equips David with a knife as well as a sling: one’s own good arms replace divine favor."
- "Virtue, Machiavelli instructed, was possible only when it was enclosed, but even within the virtù'''ous state its quantity was finite."
- "Think, for instance, of the various actualisations of the model-image of the Knight. They share the function of putting forth a claim about virtùous political conduct. This necessarily involves selection from among possible ways of conceiving of virtù."
- "We concluded at the end of Chapter 3 that the Mercurial or Herculean French king ruled over the fickle multitude by eloquence, but this woodcut might have suggested that not only “virtuous” eloquence but also “virtùous” eloquence with cunning and deceit, whose significance Machiavelli explored in his works, was needed to govern the people."
- "The next year, at the 72nd Annual National Conference, we presented a paper which contrasted the moral positions found in The Prince and Breaking Bad, titled “Breaking Bad’s Walter White: A Virtùous Man Who Lacked Virtue.”"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more virtùous (comparative)
most virtùous (superlative)
virtù-ous (alternative)