Evil vs. Virtue

Eviladjective

Intending to harm; malevolent.

‘an evil plot to kill innocent people’;

Virtuenoun

(uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.

Eviladjective

Morally corrupt.

‘Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?’;

Virtuenoun

A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.

Eviladjective

Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

Virtuenoun

Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.

Eviladjective

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

Virtuenoun

An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.

Eviladjective

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

‘an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop’;

Virtuenoun

A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.

Eviladjective

undesirable; harmful; bad practice

‘Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.’;

Virtuenoun

(uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.

Evilnoun

Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

‘The evils of society include murder and theft.’; ‘Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.’;

Virtuenoun

(obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.

Evilnoun

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.

Virtuenoun

The inherent power or efficacy of something now only in phrases.

Evilnoun

(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

Virtuenoun

Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.

‘Built too strongFor force or virtue ever to expugn.’;

Eviladjective

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

‘A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.’;

Virtuenoun

Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.

‘Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about.’; ‘A man was driven to depend for his security against misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his syntax.’; ‘The virtue of his midnight agony.’;

Eviladjective

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

‘Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,When death's approach is seen so terrible.’;

Virtuenoun

Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.

‘She moves the body which she doth possess,Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch.’;

Eviladjective

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

‘Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.’; ‘The owl shrieked at thy birth - an evil sign.’; ‘Evil news rides post, while good news baits.’; ‘It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.’;

Virtuenoun

Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.

‘I made virtue of necessity.’; ‘In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is better observed than in Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences.’;

Evilnoun

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; - opposed to good.

‘Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.’; ‘The evil that men do lives after them.’;

Virtuenoun

Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.

‘Virtue only makes our bliss below.’; ‘If there's Power above us,And that there is all nature cries aloudThrough all her works, he must delight in virtue.’;

Evilnoun

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

‘The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.’;

Virtuenoun

A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.

Evilnoun

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

‘He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.’;

Virtuenoun

Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.

‘H. I believe the girl has virtue.M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it.’;

Eviladverb

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

‘It went evil with his house.’; ‘The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.’;

Virtuenoun

One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.

‘Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.’;

Evilnoun

morally objectionable behavior

Virtuenoun

the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

Evilnoun

that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;

‘the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones’;

Virtuenoun

any admirable quality or attribute;

‘work of great merit’;

Evilnoun

the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;

‘attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world’;

Virtuenoun

morality with respect to sexual relations

Eviladjective

morally bad or wrong;

‘evil purposes’; ‘an evil influence’; ‘evil deeds’;

Virtuenoun

a particular moral excellence

Eviladjective

having the nature of vice

Virtue

Virtue (Latin: virtus) is a moral excellence. A virtue is a trait or quality that is deemed to be morally good and thus is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being.

Eviladjective

tending to cause great harm

Eviladjective

having or exerting a malignant influence;

‘malevolent stars’; ‘a malefic force’;

Evil

Evil, in a general sense, is defined by what it is not—the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness.