salutiferous
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[edit] Etymology
From the Latin adjective salūtifer, “bearing health, health-giving”.
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[edit] Adjective
salutiferous (comparative more salutiferous, superlative most salutiferous)
- (dated) healthy or health-giving[1]
- Innumerable powers, all of them salutiferous. — Cudworth.
- conducive to safety or salvation
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[edit] References
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary [Second Edition] (1989)
