Both Uses
salubrious
in
Jane Eyre
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- All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.†
p. 159.1 *
- He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site.†
p. 496.3insalubrious = unhealthystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insalubrious means not and reverses the meaning of salubrious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definitions:
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(1)
(salubrious) promoting health
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)