Meanings
- archaicuncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being whole; wholeness; health
The concept "wholth" is very important to me and it's one of the things I'm constantly seeking to achieve.
1991, Ruth Edmonds Hill, The Black Women Oral History Project4 more examples
To know the nature of the diseases, or more correctly to speak, the disorders of the body, we must first be well acquainted with the theory of its order in its health, or wholth.
1863, Samuel Dickson (M.D., Glasgow.), Memorable Events in the Life of a London PhysicianAs both Heaven and Hell objectify themselves by or through motive or purpose, in thinking, speaking, and act or deed, we should study the process by which hellth perpetuates itself in hellish words and deeds, and contrast with it wholth does not worship at the altar of the false god Mars, hellish thoughts and deeds, nor his cohorts.
1916, Health Culture - Volume 22If it takes place, I see a state of wholth or health in the future based on such an unprecedented self-awareness of the individual and of societies as wholes, that the kind of instinctive conflicts which shatter wholth at the present time, [...]
1935, Alfred Adler, Alexandra Adler, International Journal of Individual PsychologyThe locus of health is food, which, taken together with air, light, sunshine, and “more or less obscure sources of electro-magnetic, cosmic energy,” provides for “wholth or wholeness,” the “primary, positive principle” that the Nearings referred to when trying to define health.
2005, Rebecca Kneale Gould, At Home in Nature
Origin
From whole + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of health.
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