salutary

salutary (ˈsæljʊtərɪ, -trɪ)

—*adj*
1.	promoting or intended to promote an improvement or beneficial effect: a salutary warning
2.	promoting or intended to promote health

[C15: from Latin salūtāris wholesome, from salūs safety]

'salutarily

—*adv*

'salutariness

—n

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Word Origin & History

salutary

1490, from M.Fr. salutaire "beneficial," from L. salutaris "healthful," from salus (gen. salutis) "good health" (see salute).

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Medical Dictionary

salutary sal·u·tar·y (sāl'yə-těr'ē)
adj.
Favorable to health; wholesome.

Example sentences

The current financial shocks could be salutary if they provoke serious review

of what really matters on each campus.

It would be a salutary event indeed were an influential organization to weigh

in against pseudo-science in climatology.

We're not suggesting that this recipe has salutary effects, but it is delicious.

One reason is salutary: being in a string of hits no longer matters much to

many stars.

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Matching Quote

"Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank."

-Rheta Childe Dorr