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wholesomely
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. Wholesomer; superl. Wholesomest.] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.]
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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.
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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. Sound; healthy. [Obs.]
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Whole"some*ly, adv. -- Whole"some*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a wholesome manner.
WordNet
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.