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valetudinarian |
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valetudinarian [val-lit-yew-din-air-ee-an] Noun 1. a person who is chronically sick 2. a person who continually worries about his or her health [Latin valetudo state of health] valetudinarianism n
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| But his eminence as a valetudinarian now made him an object of engrossing interest, and Mrs. Yes, I said; a reward which a man might fairly expect who never understood that, if Asclepius did not instruct his descendants in valetudinarian arts, the omission arose, not from ignorance or inexperience of such a branch of medicine, but because he knew that in all well-ordered states every individual has an occupation to which he must attend, and has therefore no leisure to spend in continually being ill. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time. |
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