adjective
- conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
- chaste: a virtuous young person.
adjective
- characterized by or possessing virtue or moral excellence; righteous; upright
- (of women) chaste or virginal
late 14c., “chaste” (of women), from virtue + -ous. Earlier it was used in a sense of “valiant, valorous, manly” (c.1300).