Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wholesome

Wholesome , adjective

[Whole + some; compare Icelandic heilsamr, German heilsam, Dutch heilzaam.]

1.
Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
Wholesome thirst and appetite. — Milton
From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. — A Smith
2.
Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. — Bible (KJV) - Proverb xv. 4
I can not... make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased. — Shakespeare
A wholesome suspicion began to be entertained. — Sir W. Scott
3.
Sound; healthy. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare