valetudinary

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Instead of making him a valetudinary, this continual liability to death aided to make him a hero.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various

The buoyant mountain trips we have touched upon, and more, are within almost instant call of every dispirited Pau valetudinary, and of farther travelers as well.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

Beside these suffering men Lord George lay on a floor all night, having given up the minister's house in Musselburgh, which had been destined as his quarters, to those who were valetudinary.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

I was first entertained by his lady and daughter, he himself being in bed with a cold, according to his valetudinary custom.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund