valetudinary

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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

She had the misfortune of a very valetudinary constitution, owing, in some measure, probably to the irregularity of her form.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

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

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

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 Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)