Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being wholesome or of contributing to health; salubrity.
- noun Salutariness; conduciveness to mental, moral, or social health.
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- noun The state of being
wholesome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you
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Examples
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This wholesomeness is the result of her identification with and submission to God.
Women and Islam JDsg 2005
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This wholesomeness is the result of her identification with and submission to God.
Archive 2005-04-01 JDsg 2005
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That might not seem such a daring concept, but for a female pop star, wholesomeness is not supposed to get you very far.
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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That might not seem such a daring concept, but for a female pop star, wholesomeness is not supposed to get you very far.
Print - Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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That might not seem such a daring concept, but for a female pop star, wholesomeness is not supposed to get you very far.
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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That might not seem such a daring concept, but for a female pop star, wholesomeness is not supposed to get you very far.
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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That might not seem such a daring concept, but for a female pop star, wholesomeness is not supposed to get you very far.
Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com 2005
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When they were thus suddenly presented to me they seemed endowed with a most attractive simplicity, with a naturalness, with what I must call a wholesomeness; the objections I felt to be overstrained, unreal, morbid.
The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898
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I just love June Allyson in anything, really--I know she grates on many people's nerves, but I really appreciate the combination of genuine "wholesomeness" and very evident self-knowledge that goes into her playing...
Good News (1947) Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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So they'll take whatever marketing buzzword seems to have a patina of "wholesomeness" (from "organic" to "whole grains" to "omegas") slap it on the same old junk and pretend that they're actually doing something about the obesity crisis.
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