Originally Posted By: Faldage
Originally Posted By: themilum
what does "virtue" mean in any definition?

I'll tell if you don't.


Do tell. The brick and mortar OED goes on for more than two pages on defintions of "virtue."


Need I remind you, Mister Faldage, that the OED merely jots down usage as they run across it, but in the pedestrian world down below "meaning" differs by degrees, with each speaker, and at each spoke.

Not that the OED is a bad thing -- it's not -- but its worth is small potatoes when compared to the "meanings" that can be derived and delimited by the structure and nature of language itself.

If you have ears willing to listen I will talk.