wholth

English

Etymology

From whole +‎ -th. Doublet of health.

Noun

wholth (uncountable)

1. (chiefly archaic) The state, quality, or condition of being whole; wholeness; health
   • 1863, Samuel Dickson (M.D., Glasgow.), Memorable Events in the Life of a London Physician:

     To know the nature of the diseases, or more correctly to speak, the disorders of the body, we must first be well acquainted with the theory of its order in its health, or wholth.

   • 1916, Health Culture - Volume 22:

     As both Heaven and Hell objectify themselves by or through motive or purpose, in thinking, speaking, and act or deed, we should study the process by which hellth perpetuates itself in hellish words and deeds, and contrast with it wholth does not worship at the altar of the false god Mars, hellish thoughts and deeds, nor his cohorts.

   • 1935, Alfred Adler, Alexandra Adler, International Journal of Individual Psychology:

     If it takes place, I see a state of wholth or health in the future based on such an unprecedented self-awareness of the individual and of societies as wholes, that the kind of instinctive conflicts which shatter wholth at the present time, [...]

   • 1991, Ruth Edmonds Hill, The Black Women Oral History Project:

     The concept "wholth" is very important to me and it's one of the things I'm constantly seeking to achieve.

   • 2005, Rebecca Kneale Gould, At Home in Nature:

     The locus of health is food, which, taken together with air, light, sunshine, and “more or less obscure sources of electro-magnetic, cosmic energy,” provides for “wholth or wholeness,” the “primary, positive principle” that the Nearings referred to when trying to define health.