haleness

There’s a haleness, a sense of sincerity and belonging to The Collective that can feel congregational.

There, too, were the flower-maidens, flowers of feminine strength and haleness, naked and not blushing, proud of their beauty, having for their only cloak their hair.

The original root hal means haleness or wholeness and also refers to healing, and curiously enough the word holiness is derived from the same root.

Character is physical robustness to the extent that this latter is spiritual haleness, and in so far as it is compact, firm, steadfast thought.

We perceive the old farmer on his door-step in the evening—love and life-lines of labour upon him; we enjoy his haleness and laughter....