Wealful vs Healful - What's the difference?
wealful | healful |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Successful; prosperous.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Happy; joyful; felicitous.
Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.
* 2008 , Bernardo N. De Luca, Mind-Body and Relaxation Research Focus
Full of health or safety; healthy; whole; sound; safe.
* 1892 , Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society
* 1913 , Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green, The American federationist
* 1957 , Ray C. Petry, Late medieval mysticism
Affording health or salvation.
* 1844 , John Foxe, George Townsend, The acts and monuments of John Foxe
As adjectives the difference between wealful and healful
is that wealful is (dialectal|or|obsolete) successful; prosperous while healful is tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.wealful
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (Scottish)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* (l)healful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- healful remedies
- As for psychogenic death, this will be the case when three supplementary, in this case, healful conditions are fulfilled:
- I believe my Father catched [sic] cold on his journey, tho' he was otherways a very strong healful man, for on his return to Pennicuik a boile broke out between his shoulders, which in a very few days turn'd to a Mortification.
- The public conscience demands that they work under healful conditions, with ample light, without overspceding, and with the same provisions for their safety at their work that the employer would desire for himself were he so employed.
- And, therefore, what is more healful than the sweetness of this sight, or what softer thing may be felt?
