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adjective

Salutary adj.

Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.

Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.

Synonyms: Wholesome; healthful; salubrious; beneficial; useful; advantageous; profitable.

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Etymology of 'Salutary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Salutary" Quotes from Famous Books

... would have found Tony's face an interesting study. But she knew well enough without looking at him that he was listening to the conversation, and she determined to give him something to listen to. It was a salutary thing for Tony to be kept in mind of the fact that there were other men in ...

— Jerry Junior • Jean Webster

... thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flow'd, 'with pomp of waters, unwithstood,' Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,— That this most famous stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... much of the interest of that admirable mixture for salutary application which we know as art. Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ingredient; it plucks its material, otherwise expressed, in the garden of life—which material elsewhere grown is stale and uneatable. But it has no sooner done this than ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... salutary,' said Seraphina, with a phantom smile. 'No, I thank you, I require no attentions. The first surprise affected me: will you give me time a little? ...

— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson

... a moment of diversion? That would be to understand my thought very ill. In the grand spectacles of history as in those of nature there is something divine; from it our minds and hearts gain a virtue at once pacifying and encouraging, we experience the salutary sensation of littleness, and seeing the beauties and the sadnesses of the past we learn better how to ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

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