The most basic description of the GRE is that itâs a standardized test for people planning on attending grad school. You can think of it as similar to an ACT or SAT for graduate admissions. It tests verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing skills.
As a virtue. Chastity is the virtue which excludes or moderates the indulgence of the sexual appetite. It is a form of the virtue of temperance, which controls according to right reason the desire for and use of those things which afford the greatest sensual pleasures.
For my part I honour with the name of virtue the habit of acting in a way troublesome to oneself and useful to others. [Stendhal de l'Amour, 1822] Phrase by virtue of (early 13c.) preserves alternative Middle English sense of efficacy.. Wyclif Bible has virtue where KJV uses power. The seven cardinal virtues (early 14c.) were divided into the natural (justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude) and the theological (hope, faith, charity). To make a virtue of a necessity (late 14c.) translates Latin facere de necessitate virtutem [Jerome].