What is "valetudinarian"

Usage examples of "valetudinarian".

I believe, considerable preferment in Ireland, but now lives in London, quite as a valetudinarian, afraid to go into any house but his own.

And, Sir, he is a valetudinarian, one of those who are always mending themselves.

I do not know a more disagreeable character than a valetudinarian, who thinks he may do any thing that is for his ease, and indulges himself in the grossest freedoms: Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye.

Russian liberalism, which had always had a rather valetudinarian existence, rallied its forces and for a few years rivaled socialism in active opposition to the government.

His son, at the age of thirteen, fell from a scaffold, on which the workmen were making some extensive alterations in the old house, and became a cripple and a valetudinarian for life.

My wife, a valetudinarian through a whole life of 69 years, is worn down with care.

When he had last seen him six years before he had thought him very frail and old, a valetudinarian nearer eighty than seventy, shivering under his plaid on a mild autumn day.

Now she saw before her some dismal weeks--or months--in an alien land, in the company of a valetudinarian mother and a presumably irascible father.

Nevertheless, no one ventured to smile, notwithstanding his valetudinarian appearance and his air of affected humility.

Its valetudinarian population was of only minimal interest to a healthy young girl.

This pair cut out a valetudinarian gnu, or at any rate one that was, for whatever reason, slower on its pins than the others, and after yapping around its heels for a moment or so, went for its haunches and brought it down.

Thereafter he drifted through the next nine months, a patient valetudinarian, to his last rest.

The rest of the people named are other neighbours and friends, one of them, Mr Woodhouse, being an old gentleman of valetudinarian habits.

But I had heard that his paroxysms were often of brief continuance, and that, like most confirmed valetudinarians, when real danger stared him in the face he put it from him, and was glad to be well.

March, dwelt humorously enough with her indifferent health and made spicy observations about the many valetudinarians resident near Harrogate Spa - Anne, his sister, was to marry a gentleman from Surrey in April, all the details to follow - Cousin Alicia wrote that she was expecting another little Basil, God help her if it were a little Alicia again.