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  • adjective comparative form of healthful: more healthful

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healthful +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I dare say I shall find you the better and the honester man for it many years hence; very probably the healthfuller, and the cheerfuller into the bargain.

    Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Melville, Lewis 1921

  • I dare say I shall find you the better and the honester man for it many years hence; very probably the healthfuller, and the cheerfuller into the bargain.

    Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Lewis Melville 1903

  • At any rate, without occasionally withholding open criticism or acclaim Lowell waited among his books for the wounds of the war to heal themselves, and the nation to begin her healthfuller and nobler life.

    Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

  • At any rate, without occasionally withholding open criticism or acclaim Lowell waited among his books for the wounds of the war to heal themselves, and the nation to begin her healthfuller and nobler life.

    Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

  • As far as each is able, she is making life healthfuller and cheerfuller, and nearer to God for her husband and children and neighbors, whether these last mean a few half-breed Indians or the hundred thousand readers of a magazine.

    The Middle-Aged Woman 1875

  • And though painful the climbing up, pleasant the staying there, the higher the healthfuller, with clearer light and sweeter air.

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

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