The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word VIRTUE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result VIRTUE
- One’s hope against one’s true fancy
- Merit in struggle to overcome resistance by trade union
- Man in Rome regularly toured showing patience, perhaps
- Moral quality bachelor renounced in sex with frenzied brute
- Resistance by union blocking struggle for excellence
- True vice half-destroyed, surprisingly, by its opposite
- Strive to keep right, united in integrity
- Honour female’s lost to furtive fumbling
- Six with regret about wait ultimately showing patience?
- The merit of rotgut, oddly, in struggle
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What does VIRTUE mean?
VIRTUE noun- Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
- A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
- Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.
- An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
- A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.
- Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
- The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
- The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).