Sample Sentences forsalutary (auto-selected)
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"Know, O enlightened Prince," said the Grand Vizier, "that until the year in which your exalted father began his salutary and unending reign, the land of Narnia was covered with ice and snow and was moreover ruled by a most powerful enchantress." (source)salutary = beneficial
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Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.† (source)
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So much travelling cannot be salutary, either for your peace of mind, or for your health.† (source)
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To them, the excesses of the plebe system were salutary and character-building.† (source)
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It was not an unreasonable argument, but the prevailing view, with which I agreed, was that circumcision was a cultural ritual that had not only a salutary health benefit but an important psychological effect.† (source)
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I had a long and salutary session with the stuff that night, and as my spiritual bruises became less painful under its healing influence I reviewed the incidents of the past few days.† (source)
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And it is even more difficult to understand just why they think that this maneuver was calculated to save Russia and destroy the French; for this flank march, had it been preceded, accompanied, or followed by other circumstances, might have proved ruinous to the Russians and salutary for the French.† (source)
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But being unpracticed in such discursive reasoning and anything but intellectually alert after his unsalutary walk, he was easily diverted, and was in fact diverted almost immediately by the round back in front of him and by the arm extending from it, which lifted and reached back, so that the hand—now right before Hans Castorp's eyes—could tuck at the braid of hair.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsalutary means not and reverses the meaning of salutary. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I hoped that the active and laborious life of a smuggler, with the severe discipline on board, would have a salutary effect on his character, which was now well-nigh, if not quite, corrupt.† (source)
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It was assumed, of course, that all this was done freely, and in good faith, by way of voluntary submission and salutary guidance.† (source)
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So much for the salutary effects of cleansing rains.† (source)
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Looked at in the right light, it could be seen as a salutary lesson.† (source)
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Yet we can learn a salutary lesson from the zeal, excessive though it was, of those Abyssinian Christians.† (source)
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Besides, little Joseph had been away from home much of the time, up on the farm in the Volvic mountains with his grandfather, where the air was especially pure, and the country quiet salutary for a child of nervous temperament.† (source)
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The promptitude of the punishment has proved salutary.† (source)
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And it is on that that I build—on the salutary terror I inspire!† (source)
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