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valetudinarian

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  1. 1. a. Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian Source: wordnet
  4. 4. n. weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health Source: wordnet
  5. 5. Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. Swift. Source: webster
  6. 6. Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly;infirm.My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge.The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not avaletudinarian virtue. Macaulay. Source: adambom
  7. 7. n. weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health a. of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian Source: ecdict

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