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Wholesomely

Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. Wholesomer; superl. Wholesomest.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]

  1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.

    Wholesome thirst and appetite.
    --Milton.

    From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food.
    --A Smith.

  2. Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.

    A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.
    --Prov. xv. 4.

    I can not . . . make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased.
    --Shak.

    A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  3. Sound; healthy. [Obs.]
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n.

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wholesomely

adv. In a wholesome manner.

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wholesomely

adv. in a wholesome manner; "the papers we found shed some valuable light on this question, wholesomely contradicting all lies"

Usage examples of "wholesomely".

I felt it advisable to keep my mind wholesomely occupied, for it would not do to brood over the abnormalities of this ancient, blight-shadowed town while I was still within its borders.

His immersion had not harmed him, it had merely made him wholesomely drowsy, and he had been dead asleep many hours now.