Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wholesome.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Wholesome; salubrious.

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  • adjective wholesome; salubrious

Etymologies

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health +‎ -some

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Examples

  • To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,

    Romeo and Juliet 2004

  • The ayre alwaie so attempre and pure, that nothyng can be more swiete, more pleasaunte, nor healthsome.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • These apartments, under the best superintendence, cannot be made to afford proper accommodations for the inmates … and a portion of the rooms seemed more like those receptacles of crime, “to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,” than tenements prepared for the recipients of an awful visitation of Divine Providence, justly considered the worst “of all the ills that flesh is heir to.”

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • These apartments, under the best superintendence, cannot be made to afford proper accommodations for the inmates … and a portion of the rooms seemed more like those receptacles of crime, “to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,” than tenements prepared for the recipients of an awful visitation of Divine Providence, justly considered the worst “of all the ills that flesh is heir to.”

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • -- "Weill," sayis he, "my heart is full and burdened, and I will be glaid to haif ane occasioun to disburdein it, and speik all my mynd plainely to thame for the dishonouring of Chryst, and wraik of sua many soulis for their doeings; be the beiring doun the sinceritie and fridom of the Gospel, stoping that healthsome breath of Godis mouth, and maintaining of the Papistis 'corruptiounes and superstitiounes."

    Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

  • To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

  • While yet they deigned that healthsome balm to lade,

    American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

  • To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,

    Act IV. Scene III. Romeo and Juliet 1914

  • For he created all things that they might have being; and the generative powers of the world are healthsome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor hath Hades royal dominion upon earth: for righteousness is immortal.

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • A breeze from the north-west chased the blood to healthsome leaping, and caught the breath like an unexpected kiss.

    Demos George Gissing 1880

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