- An admirable quality - Faith, hope or charity - Moral excellence - Moral goodness - Moral quality - Particular moral excellence - Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
- Predominance - The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior
strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or
practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion,
or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
- Degenerate - Go down - Refuse an invitation - Refuse to accept - Turn down - worsen decay - To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward
direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- Putrefy - Rot - Wear away - To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect
state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste
away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated;
to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay. - To cause to decay; to impair. - To destroy. - Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity,
or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward
dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline;
deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the
decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.