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valetudinarian
Part of speech: NounAn invalid or sickly person; a person whose chief interest is health.
Part of speech: AdjectiveIn poor health; seeking to recover health; overanxious about one's own health and that of others. Also, valetudinary.
Usage examples "valetudinarian":- And there's a valetudinarian aspect to the place which I find slightly depressing. - "The Prairie Mother", Arthur Stringer.
- If we know anything of Johnson, we know that he was constantly ill all through his life; and whether we know anything of him or not we are apt to think of a literary man as a delicate, weakly, nervous, and probably valetudinarian sort of person. - "Dr. Johnson and His Circle", John Bailey.
- Old James Winslow had been a mere fox- hunting squire till he became a valetudinarian; nor had he ever cared for the church or for the poor, so that the village was in a frightful state of neglect. - "Chantry House", Charlotte M. Yonge.