valetudinary
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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
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
This attack gives a decidedly valetudinary tone to one of his subsequent letters to Deborah.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
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
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
