virtuous

of moral excellence

• “a genuinely good person”
• “a just cause”
• “an upright and respectable man”
• “the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous” Frederick Douglass

morally excellent

behaving according to standards of what is right or just

• “led a virtuous (or moral) life”

in a state of sexual virginity

• “pure and vestal modesty”
• “a spinster or virgin lady”
• “men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal”