valetudinarian

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“There’s a class-based idea that anything too valetudinarian, too conspicuously hygienic, is middle-class,” he said, using a long word for being unduly anxious about one’s health.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2020

Paranoid about his health, this classic valetudinarian is really scared of dying alone and unloved.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2016

Other countries should be put on notice that Britain is nobody's poor relation and nobody's valetudinarian cousin.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the air of an unwilling valetudinarian, Michigan's handsome, boot-jawed Governor Kim Sigler got up to speak before the Economics Club of Detroit.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so, for the present, I conclude, with a quotation from Shakspeare, who was, among other things, evidently a valetudinarian, and finish these papers by saying, "The tenor of them doth but signify" "My Health."

From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 62, January 20, 1872 by Various