Mighty vs Virtue - What's the difference?
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Influential, powerful beings.
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, title= (obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
* Bible , 1 Chronicles 11:12, King James Version:
Very strong; possessing might.
* Bible, Job ix. 4
Very heavy and powerful.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
* Bible, Matthew xi. 20
* Hawthorne
(informal) Excellent, extremely good.
(colloquial) Very; to a high degree.
* Samuel Pepys
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).
* 2011 , "The autumn of the patriarchs", The Economist , 17 Feb 2011:
(uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , XV.1:
A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
* 1766 , Laurence Sterne, Sermon XLIV:
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.
* 1813 , John Fleetwood, The Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ :
An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
* 1719 , :
* 2011 , The Guardian , Letter, 14 Mar 2011
A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book X:
(uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice :
As nouns the difference between mighty and virtue
is that mighty is influential, powerful beings or mighty can be (obsolete|rare) a warrior of great strength and courage while virtue is (obsolete) the inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.As an adjective mighty
is very strong; possessing might.As an adverb mighty
is (colloquial) very; to a high degree.mighty
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Noun
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Noun
(mighties)- And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties .
Adjective
(er)- He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
- Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
- Thor swung his mighty hammer.
- He gave the ball a mighty hit.
- His mighty works
- Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
- Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
- She's a mighty cook.
Derived terms
* high and mightyAdverb
(-)- You can leave that food in your locker for the weekend, but it's going to smell mighty bad when you come back on Monday.
- Pork chops boiled with turnip greens makes a mighty fine meal.
- The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
- I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.
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* English degree adverbsvirtue
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(wikipedia virtue)Alternative forms
* vertue (archaic)Noun
- many Egyptians still worry that the Brotherhood, by virtue of discipline and experience, would hold an unfair advantage if elections were held too soon.
- There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.
- Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues ; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known [...].
- The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.
- There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.
- One virtue of the present coalition government's attack on access to education could be to reopen the questions raised so pertinently by Robinson in the 1960s [...].
- Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues , Powers; / For in possession such, not only of right, / I call ye, and declare ye now [...].
- though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.