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  • adjective superlative form of healthful: most healthful.

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Examples

  • And with the discovery of either of the two above shewed, it will bee the most sweet and healthfullest climate, and there withall the most fertile soyle (being manured) in the world: and then will Sassafras, and many other rootes and gummes there found make good marchandise and lading for shipping, which otherwise of themselves will not be worth fetching.

    Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

  • They went into the garden, which was Dahlia's healthfullest place.

    Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • They went into the garden, which was Dahlia's healthfullest place.

    Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • They went into the garden, which was Dahlia's healthfullest place.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • They are not subject to great exposure, like the lumberers of Maine, in any weather, but inhale the healthfullest breezes, being slightly encumbered with clothing, frequently with the head and feet bare.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • And with the discouery of either of the two aboue shewed, it will bee the most sweet and healthfullest climate, and therewithall the most fertile soyle (being manured) in the world: and then will Sassafras, and many other rootes and gummes there found make good marchandise and lading for shipping, which otherwise of themselues will not be worth fetching.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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