salutariness

Had she interfered she must have seemed to sympathise, and thus the lesson might have suffered in salutariness.

The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

For I will frankly and solemnly declare, that I believe the views of both of you to be pure and well meant, and that experience only will decide with respect to the salutariness of the measures which are the subjects of dispute.

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

Anna for the first time could merge her resentment on behalf of Rex in her sympathy with Gwendolen; and Mrs. Gascoigne was disposed to hope that trouble would have a salutary effect on her niece, without thinking it her duty to add any bitters by way of increasing the salutariness.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

It is true that the spectacle is painful, horrible; but in pain and horror there is often hidden a certain salutariness, and the repulsion of which we are conscious is as likely to arise from debilitation of public nerve, as from a higher reach of public feeling.

Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

“I will frankly and solemnly declare,” he said, “that I believe the views of both of you to be pure and well-meant, and that experience only will decide with respect to the salutariness of the measures which are the subjects of dispute ....

George Washington Lodge, Henry Cabot 1889