sanative
Example Sentences
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In this case, as in diarrhœa, we recognize a simple and sanative operation of nature's law, which, if aided, will generally prove beneficial.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
The above being stated as the advantages attending the use of the sanative tea in the morning, it is next expedient to consider what benefit is derived from the use of it in the afternoon.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
Since I had seen him, society had emulated the State in the practice of a truly sanative attitude toward him.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
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 war has produced no other book like 'Professor Latimer's Progress,' with its sanative masculine blend of deep feeling, fluid intelligence, and heart-easing mirth, its people a joyous company.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
