Definitions
Healthy, decent, or good for well-being.
Word origin
From earlier holesome, from Middle English holsom, holsum, helsum, halsum, from Old English *hālsum, *hǣlsum, from Proto-West Germanic *hailasam, from Proto-Germanic *hailasamaz, equivalent to whole + -some or hale (“healthy”) + -some. Cognate with Saterland Frisian heelsoam, Dutch heilzaam, German Low German heelsaam, German heilsam, Icelandic heilsamur, Norwegian Nynorsk helsesam, Swedish hälsosam (“wholesome”).
Used in a sentence
“I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.”
“Everything we do is so wholesome.”
“Though hard, my friends, yet wholesome are the truths, taught in affliction's school, whence the pure soul rises refined, and soars above the world.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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