The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.
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Valetudinarian
/ˌvæ.ləˌtuː.dɪˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
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alcoholicalternating personalityantisocial personalityapoplecticarthriticcachecticcaseconsumptivedebilitateddisordered personalitydisturbed personalitydouble personalitydraineddrug userdual personalitydyspepticemotionally unstable personalityenervatedepileptic
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escapistexhaustedfailingfeeblefrailhealthlesshostile personalityhypochondriachypochondriastidiotimaginary invalidimmature personalityin poor healthinadequate personalityincurableindisposedinferior personalityinfirminpatientinvalid
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moribundmultiple personalityneuropathneuroticneurotic personalityoutpatientpaleparanoid personalitypatientpeakedpeakyperverse personalitypsychoneuroticpsychopathpsychopathic personalitypsychoticpsychotic personalityreducedreduced in healthrheumatic
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Mr. Granard became a valetudinarian; he was always applying to some physician or another, perhaps a little to their bewilderment, for no disease was apparent: they knew not that the improvident father feared to die, for the sake of five destitute orphans.
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The valetudinarian habit of discussing his health had grown on Rose[…]
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True Madam there are Valetudinarians in Reputation as well as constitution—who being conscious of their weak Part, avoid the least breath of air, and supply their want of Stamina by care and circumspection—
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