valetudinary

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This quaint observation may have been due to some valetudinary motive, or, more probably, to some odd freak of association.

From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

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 Johnson, Samuel

His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Carlyle, Thomas

The father, a good-natured, silly valetudinary, abandons the management of his household to Emma, he himself being only occupied by his summer and winter walk, his apothecary, his gruel, and his whist table.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

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