OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 29557

valetudinarian

/ˌvæ.ləˌtuː.dɪˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
valetudinario
Sickly, infirm, of ailing health.
Mr. Granard became a valetudinarian; he was always applying to some physician or another, perhaps a little to their bewilderment, for no disease was apparent: they knew not that th…
The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.
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