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valetudinary

[ val-i-tood-n-er-ee, -tyood- ]

noun

plural valetudinaries.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of valetudinary1

1575–85; < Latin ±¹²¹±ôŧ³ÙÅ«»å¾±²ÔÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ sickly, equivalent to ±¹²¹±ôŧ³ÙÅ«»å¾±²Ô- (stem of ±¹²¹±ôŧ³ÙÅ«»åÅ ) good or bad state of health ( ±¹²¹±ôŧ ( re ) to be well + -³ÙÅ«»åÅ -tude ) + -Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ -ary
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Example Sentences

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.

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This attack gives a decidedly valetudinary tone to one of his subsequent letters to Deborah.

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It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of August.

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Though valetudinary, he lived to be nearly ninety, and to welcome to Scotland his son, Colonel William Duncan, who, with the highest character for military and civil merit, had made a considerable fortune in India.

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

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