salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc• Experience of reality provides the salutary lesson.• The writing stage, when topics and questions are actually put down, can be quite a salutary experience.• This can be a very salutary experience.• It was a salutary lesson for me on riskingrejection and on my perceivednotions of status.• It is extremely disconcerting, and the Madnessdebate provided a salutary lesson for Morrissey, as well as ourselves.• Those incidents are a salutary reminder of the dedication of police officers to protecting the public.• The Crabb incident is a salutary reminder that one should never believe anything a government says about an incident involvingintelligence.• More simplesalutary lessons were being learned in Britain too.
Originsalutary
(1400-1500)Frenchsalutaire, from Latinsalutaris, from salus; → SALUTE1