Vertuousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

vertuous (comparative more vertuous, superlative most vertuous)

1. Obsolete spelling of virtuous
   • 1591, Michael Drayton, The Harmonie of the Church:

     TO THE GODLY AND VERTUOUS LADY, THE LADY JANE DEUOREUX, OF MERIUALE.

   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii], page 261:

     Doſt thou thinke becauſe thou art vertuous, there ſhall be no more Cakes and Ale?

   • 1659, Francis Osborne, A Miscellany of Sundry Essays:

     To my Vertuous, No less than in all things else Deserving NIECE, Mrs. ELIZABETH DRAPER.