Meanings
verbvirtuefy (third-person singular simple present virtuefies, present participle virtuefying, simple past and past participle virtuefied)
present singular third person virtuefies · participle present virtuefying · participle past virtuefied · past virtuefied
- archaictransitiveTo make virtuous.
[…] his friends sent him into the army, which they believed would "virtuefy" him; but he soon left it, a disgrace to his corps.
1836, Robert Slater Bayley, Nature considered as a revelation, page 147
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