sanative

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And there is, too, a sanative quality in that feeling.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Smeared with that sanative soil, he might have been born again—no more a leper.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

The magnetism of his presence in the military hospitals was more sanative than the doctors' physic.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

"And you don't think two years' prison, two years' slavery, was sanative enough without the denial of his just compensation?"

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

That Wisest of Men—so our dear friends may have heard—extols it above history and above philosophy, as the more divine in its origin, the more immediately and intimately salutary and sanative in its use.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various