SOUND'NESS, n. 1. Wholeness; entireness; an unbroken, unimpaired or undecayed state; as the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, of a limb, &c.2. An unimpaired state of an animal or vegetable body; a state in which the organs are entire and regularly perform their functions. We say, the soundness of the body, the soundness of the constitution, the soundness of health.3. Firmness; strength; solidity; truth; as soundness of reasoning or argument, of doctrine or principles.4. Truth; rectitude; firmness; freedom from error or fallacy; orthodoxy; as soundness of faith.
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