Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WHOLE'SOME-NESS
WHOLE'SOME-NESS, n.
- The quality of contributing to health; salubrity; as, the wholesomeness of air or diet.
- Salutariness; conduciveness to the health of the mind or of the body politic; as, the wholesomeness of doctrines or laws.
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