valetudinary

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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

An adagio may set a gouty father to sleep, and a capriccio may operate successfully on the nerves of a valetudinary mother.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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 Lady of Lochleven rose from the bedside, and darted a penetrating look at the elder valetudinary.

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir