salubrity

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With all his unlikable habits he is truly valuable as an agent of public salubrity, and an important officer of the desert "commission of highways These public scavengers, while especially fond of carcasses and putrid flesh, are not averse to a little fresh meat occasionally.

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  1. The state or character of being salubrious or wholesome; healthful character or condition; healthfulness; as, the salubrity of mountain air. Drink the wild air's salubrity. Emerson, Conduct of Life. They eulogized … the salubrity of the climate. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 150.

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  • The region to which he retired was famous for its salubrity, and the intense heat of the season effectually forbade much military activity. —  The Life of Francis Marion
  • At all those stations the malaria was long ago driven away by the trees, and places that were once unhealthy are now renowned for their salubrity The youths observed that most of the eucalyptus trees were tall and slender. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
  • Little information is given but what is derived from sources of general access; but it does profess to set forth the truth as far as that could be obtained from the conflicting statements of different parties While the following pages will be found to contain ample proof as to the extent and richness of the gold fields; as well as the salubrity of the climate, it is satisfactory to be able to state here that the country is proved to be easily accessible both for English and American merchandise. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields
  • When I add that the island boasts a climate of great salubrity, with a winter temperature resembling that of England, and a summer little inferior to that of Paris, I need say no more, lest my picture be suspected of sharing too deeply of couleur de rose Of the southern part of this district Lieutenant Wilkes, who commanded the late exploring expedition under the United States government, says, "Few portions of the globe are so rich in soil, so diversified in surface, or so capable of being rendered the happy homes of an industrious and civilised community. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields
  • These primitive sanatoria were built in places carefully chosen for their salubrity of climate and healthful environment. —  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
 

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  1. from French salubrité = Spanish salubridad = Portuguese salubridade = Italian salubrità, from Latin salubritas (-tat-), healthfulness, from salubris, healthful: see salubrious.
 

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