haleness


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hale 1

 (hāl)
adj. hal·er, hal·est
Free from infirmity or illness; sound. See Synonyms at healthy.

[Middle English, from Old English hāl; see kailo- in Indo-European roots.]

hale′ness n.

hale 2

 (hāl)
tr.v. haled, hal·ing, hales
1. To compel to go: "In short order the human rights campaign was haled before a high court of indignation" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).
2. Archaic To pull, draw, drag, or hoist.

[Middle English halen, to pull, drag, from Old French haler, of Germanic origin; see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.haleness - a state of robust good health
good health, healthiness - the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease
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haleness

noun
The condition of being physically and mentally sound:
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The one who is in reclusion needs ten things: (i) knowledge of what is true and what is false; (ii) doing with little; (iii) embracing difficulty; (iv) making the most of seclusion and haleness; (v) anticipating last things; (vi) considering others better than him; (vii) keeping people safe from his evil; (viii) working ceaselessly, for idleness is deadly; (ix) never being pleased with his current state; (x) his home is free of nonessentials, defined as everything other than the day's needs for true seekers and everything other than the moment's needs for true knowers.
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[L]acking Reagan's outward haleness, he risks coming across like Dole against Clinton-or, more ominously, his fellow ex-POW [Ross Perot's running mate] James Bond Stockdale, who turned in a notoriously lost-and incoherent-sounding performance against [Bill Clinton's running mate] AI Gore and [George H.