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Definition of Valetudinarian

Valetudinarian
Valetudinarian Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an, n. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. --Swift.

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- father takes her to live with her aunt, Madame Raquin, and Camille, her valetudinarian son. Because her son is "so ill", Madame Raquin dotes on him to the...
- Tokugawa shogunate. At the age of six, his elder brother Yorishige became valetudinarian, and Mitsukuni was chosen to succeed his father. At the age of nine...
- plantation in whose barn the priest takes refuge. Mrs. Fellows: The valetudinarian wife of Captain Fellows. Coral Fellows: The thirteen-year-old daughter...
- and father have left her to be brought up by her aunt Emily and the valetudinarian Davey, whom Emily marries early in the novel. **** also spends holidays...
- Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse: Mr. Woodhouse is described by Austen as a valetudinariansomeone who enjoys ill-health. He lost his wife when his two daughters...
- parodies Emma's relationship to Harriet. Mr Woodhouse, Emma's father, is a valetudinarian and is paranoid about his own and others' health. He is against eating...
- write that drinking tea would make Americans "weak, effeminate, and valetudinarian for life." These permanent committees performed the important planning...
- Evans recognised his gifts, and endured his su****ious temper and his valetudinarian ways with exemplary patience. Hogarth left for other excavations and...
- λόγου dub. l. in Men.402.15. 2. esp. of medical treatment, ἕξις θ. a valetudinarian habit of body, Arist.Pol.1335b7; ἡ -κή, = θεραπεία, Pl.Plt.282a; also...