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valetudinary
Part of speech: AdjectiveSickly; seeking to recover health.
Usage examples "valetudinary":- She had the misfortune of a very valetudinary constitution, owing, in some measure, probably to the irregularity of her form. - "The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V.", Theophilus Cibber.
- It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
- They are subject to hard knotty Swellings, a Consumption, all Sorts of languid Disorders, and either die in their Infancy, or only grow up into a miserable valetudinary Life; while those who are washed or plunged into cold Water, and habitually exposed to the open Air, are just in the opposite Circumstances. - "Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health", Samuel Auguste David Tissot.