sanative
Example Sentences
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To one who has hived with demons, there is something so simple and sanative about the restoring night—the rest of healing and health.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
"But, our dear friend!" we entreated, "don't you realize that this theft, this robbery, this fraud, as you call it, was part of the sanative punishment which the State had inflicted upon him?"
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
That Wisest of Men—so our dear friends may have heard—extols it above history and above philosophy, as the more divine in its origin, the more immediately and intimately salutary and sanative in its use.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
But I wonder," he went on, "that it doesn't produce more moralists of a sanative type than it has.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
Hence we must aid the vital power to maintain her empire and resist the encroachments on her sanative operations by the use of antiseptics and stimulants.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
