valetudinary
Americannoun
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valetudinaries
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Etymology
Origin of valetudinary
1575–85; < Latin valētūdinārius sickly, equivalent to valētūdin- (stem of valētūdō ) good or bad state of health ( valē ( re ) to be well + -tūdō -tude ) + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary....
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required, had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of August.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
Those subject to this Malady are valetudinary weakly Persons, who are disordered from many slight Causes, and whose Stomachs are at once very feeble and extremely sensible.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
This quaint observation may have been due to some valetudinary motive, or, more probably, to some odd freak of association.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
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