Integrity vs. Virtue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Integrity and Virtue
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Integrity
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.
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.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code
A leader of great integrity.
Virtue
Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.
Integrity
The state of being unimpaired; soundness
The building's integrity remained intact following the mild earthquake.
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Virtue
An example or kind of moral excellence
The virtue of patience.
Integrity
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
Replaced a lost book to restore the integrity of his collection.
Virtue
(Archaic) Chastity, especially in a woman.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
Virtue
A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage
A plan with the virtue of being practical.
Integrity
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
Virtue
Effective force or power
Believed in the virtue of prayer.
Integrity
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
Virtue
Virtues(Christianity) The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
Integrity
(cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
Virtue
(Obsolete) Manly courage; valor.
Integrity
(aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
Virtue
(uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
Without virtue, there is no freedom.
Integrity
Trustworthiness; keeping your word.
Virtue
A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
Integrity
The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
Virtue
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.
Integrity
Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; - used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature.
Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth.
Virtue
An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
Integrity
Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
Virtue
A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.
Integrity
An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
Virtue
(uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
Integrity
Moral soundness
Virtue
(obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
Virtue
The inherent power or efficacy of something now only in phrases.
Virtue
Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
Built too strongFor force or virtue ever to expugn.
Virtue
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.
Virtue
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.
Virtue
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.
Virtue
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.
Virtue
A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
Virtue
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.
Virtue
One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
Virtue
The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
Virtue
Any admirable quality or attribute;
Work of great merit
Virtue
Morality with respect to sexual relations
Virtue
A particular moral excellence
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