salutary

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Do what he would he couldn't despoil himself of the impression that the disagreeable was somehow connected with the salutary, and the "quiet" with the disagreeable, when stubbornly borne; so he resisted a hundred impulses to run away to Paris or to Florence, coarse forms of the temptation to persuade himself by material motion that he was launched.

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  1. adjective Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial: salutary advice.
  2. adjective Favorable to health; wholesome: a salutary climate.

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  • Subsequent events proved how salutary were these efforts. —  The World As I Have Found It
  • The precaution proved salutary, as no later than the following morning the officers of the law were sent to the house of Leyre, and being unable to find him, forthwith mounted in their turn and took the road to France. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1
  • And a right understanding of that origin is salutary, a misunderstanding is injurious V THE WISDOM OF THE MYSTERIES AND THE MYTH The Mystic sought forces and beings within himself which are unknown to man as long as he remains in the ordinary attitude towards life. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
  • The rest was deep and salutary, and it has not been disturbed to this hour. —  Embarrassments
  • These varieties are supposed to be more or less rational and salutary, according to the conception which they respectively exhibit of the nature and character of God,--a conception which may be endlessly diversified by the intellect, or the imagination, or the passions of different men; while all the forms of belief are radically identical, since they all spring from the same ground-principle, and are only so many distinct manifestations of it. —  Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
 

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  1. Middle English saluter, from Old French salutaire, from Latin salūtāris, from salūs, salūt-, health; see sol- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French salutaire = Portuguese salutar = Italian salutare, from Latin salutaris, healthful, from salus (salut-,) health: see salute.
 

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/ˈsæljutəri/
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