valetudinarian

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian
NOUN
  1. weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
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How To Use valetudinarian In A Sentence

  • A man in good health may put up with any thing; but I would advise every valetudinarian who travels this way, to provide his own chaise, mattrass, and bedlinnen, otherwise he will pass his time very uncomfortably. Travels through France and Italy
  • Know then, I have made divers desperate leaps at those upper regions; but always fell backward into this vapour-pit, exhausted and dispirited by those ineffectual efforts; and here we poor valetudinarians pant and struggle, like so many Chinese gudgeons, gasping in the bottom of a punch-bowl. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • A trickle of visitors soon turned to a flood and the Silesian peasant was, by the beginning of the 1840s, personally ministering to hundreds of valetudinarians a year.
  • ONE hour more to dinner-time conversation, to be added or subtracted, as occasions offered, or the desire of her friends required: and yet found it difficult, as she often said, to keep this account even; especially if Dr. Lewen obliged them with his company at their table; which, however he seldom did; for, being a valetudinarian, and in a regimen, he generally made his visits in the afternoon. Clarissa Harlowe
  • A "valetudinarian" is a10-dollar word for someone who is sickly. Post-gazette.com - News
  • I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • In the western part of the parish is a valley encircled with hills, celebrated for goats’ milk, which is in much request by valetudinarians, who resort hither during the summer months.
  • Her valetudinarian but masterful father, son of a wool merchant, became sufficiently well-to-do to retire from business. Ada Leverson.
  • The gentlemen received the communication with stoical indifference, and Mrs. Tibbs devoted all her energies to prepare for the reception of the valetudinarian. Sketches by Boz
  • At three and twenty he thought himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue in the mirror. Les Miserables
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