01 a. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
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Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.“Wholesome thirst and appetite.” — Milton.“From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food.” — A Smith.
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Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.“A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.” — Prov. xv. 4.“I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased.” — Shak.“A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained.” — Sir W. Scott.
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Sound; healthy.[Obs.]