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valetudinarian

(n): weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health

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4 months ago chained_bear said:

"'I might prefer to wait for Yarell, whose present incumbent, a valetudinarian of over seventy, lives in Bath.'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 74

6 months ago brtom said:

True, madam, there are valetudinarians in reputation as well as constitution ...
Sheridan, School for Scandal

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