valetudinarianism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of valetudinarianism
First recorded in 1830–40; valetudinarian + -ism
Example Sentences
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He was a little disposed towards valetudinarianism, and was apt to imagine himself visited by divers diseases.
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From the foregoing it is clear that valetudinarianism, if it prove anything, proves not that it renders intellectual effort impossible, but that it serves as a discipline for the soul.
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Well, I ought to be glad, after ten years of the worst training on earth—valetudinarianism—that I can still be troubled by a duty.
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He scorned the sickliness of the Rousseau school as, in spite of his constitutional melancholy, he scorned valetudinarianism whether of the bodily or the spiritual order.
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He was tormented by presentiments of misfortune; he indulged a kind of romantic valetudinarianism.
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