sanative
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of sanative
1400–50; < Medieval Latin sānātīvus ( see sanatory, -ive); replacing late Middle English sanatif < Middle French < Medieval Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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The war has produced no other book like 'Professor Latimer's Progress,' with its sanative masculine blend of deep feeling, fluid intelligence, and heart-easing mirth, its people a joyous company.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
Let him eschew such hyper-erudite monstrosities—let him stick to the 'recital' of sane and sanative music, and he will attain a reputation above all contemporary musical mono-facturers—and what is more, deserve it.'
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
The magnetism of his presence in the military hospitals was more sanative than the doctors' physic.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
"And you don't think two years' prison, two years' slavery, was sanative enough without the denial of his just compensation?"
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
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