salutary

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Where-ever I have afforded my Salutary Preference, Fevers have ceased to burn, and Agues to shake the Human Fabrick.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Salutary and even necessary as some reform of the kind was, in the particular way in which it was carried out it fell with crushing force on the unfortunate children.

From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Bray, Reginald Arthur

Salutary as this doubtless was to the really ignorant meddler, there was one occasion, of which I learnt thirty years later, where at bottom the rebuke was not deserved.

From Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch by Huxley, Leonard

Salutary, sal′ū-tar-i, adj. belonging to health: promoting health or safety: wholesome: beneficial.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Salutary impressions, I cannot question, dear Aunty, were made upon his mind.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah