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salutary
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synonyms: salubrious ???
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Definition:1. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health; as, salutary exercise.2. Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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And, without listening to the chemist, who was still venturing the hypothesis, "It is perhaps a salutary paroxysm,"
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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She was knitting, and could either look at Fred or not, as she chose—always an advantage when one is bent on loading speech with salutary meaning; and though Mrs. Garth intended to be duly reserved, she did wish to say something that Fred might be the better for.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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He was like a salutary tonic; with him, she could only inhabit a higher level of goodness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.384 (2013)
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