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Today's Word "hale"

Free from disease and weakening conditions on

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hale \HAYL\ (adjective) - Free from disease and weakening conditions; healthy.

"The person whom the traveller had so abruptly encountered was of this kind: bluff, hale, hearty, and in a green old age: at peace with himself, and evidently disposed to be so with all the world." -- Charles Dickens, 'Barnaby Rudge'

 

Hale comes from Middle English hal, related to whole. The alliterative phrase hale and hearty is often applied to older persons who retain the health and vigor of youth.


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