valetudinary

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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

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

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.

It is worthy of remark, that the Austrian medical officers send the valetudinary among the soldiers to these baths from a very great distance.

From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

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