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aretegenic

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Conducive to or producing virtue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 199?,, Colin E. Gunton, in The Church as a School of Virtue?: Human Formation in Trinitarian Framework, speaking before the Heidelberger Ökumenisches Forum Good theology is aretegenic, productive of virtue.

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History

Etymology

Coined by Episcopalian theologian Ellen T. Charry in 1997 in "By the Renewing of Your Minds" →ISBN. From Ancient Greek ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) and γεννάω (gennáō, “to beget”).