All around the Mediterranean, modesty was considered the primary female virtue, its public expression necessary for an ordered human society.

This conception of female virtue no longer holds true in many modern societies (see also cultural relativism).

The sculpture is seen as a symbol of female virtue.

"It was this paradoxical link between female virtue and female beauty that is the core of the exhibition."

Unlike men of the world such as you and I, she doesn't take female virtue lightly.

Filthy hair hung in dark, wet tangles over features once considered the bane of female virtue.

And so ideals of female virtue and repression resonate through time.

For the time, the act of composing a novel by a woman violated the ideals of female virtue.

In place of the witch who easily seduces the men she meets, a male enchanter is resisted by female virtue.

She is "the wickedest woman in history"; she is a pattern of female virtue.