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Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines..

Helleborin :: Helleborin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Value :: Value (v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues..

Emulous :: Emulous (a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues..

Semblance :: Semblance (a.) Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue..

Virtue :: Virtue (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc..

Decoction :: Decoction (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.

Prudish :: Prudish (a.) Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners..

Cross :: Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.

Virtue :: Virtue (n.) Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity..

Debauchment :: Debauchment (n.) The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Extreme :: Extreme (n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet..

Extol :: Extol (v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person..

Moral :: Moral (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman..

Virtuous :: Virtuous (a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.

Bounty :: Bounty (n.) Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth..

Essence :: Essence (n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like..

Prescription :: Prescription (n.) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

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