hale and heartiness
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hale and hearty + -ness.
Noun
[edit]hale and heartiness (uncountable)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being hale and hearty.
- 2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow, Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
- As for his own relative hale and heartiness, he attributed it to drinking a bottle of beer per night; ‘all the beer drinkers seem to be keeping pretty fit’.