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healful

adjective

  1. Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.

    As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled: […]

  2. Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe.

    […] I believe my Father catched [sic] cold on his journey, tho' he was otherways a very strong healful man, for on his return to Pennicuik a boile broke out between his shoulders, which in a very few days turn'd to a Mortification.

  3. Affording health or salvation.

    […] since Christ will not fail to minister, himself, all lawful and healful sacraments, and necessary at all time, and especially at the end, […]

Where it comes from

From Middle English heeleful, heleful, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -ful. Compare healless.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry healful (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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