The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.
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Valetudinarian
//ˌvæ.ləˌtuː.dɪˈnɛə.ɹi.ən//
Synonyms for "valetudinarian" (97 found)
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emotionally unstable personalityenervatedepilepticescapistexhaustedfailingfeeblefrailhealthlesshostile personalityhypochondriacalhypochondriastidiotimaginary invalidimmature personalityin poor healthinadequate personalityincurableindisposedinferior personality
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maladjusted personalitymentally defective personalitymoral insanitymoribundmultiple personalityneuropathneuroticneurotic personalityoutpatientpaleparanoid personalitypatientpeakedpeakyperverse personalitypsychoneuroticpsychopathpsychopathic personalitypsychoticpsychotic personality
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20 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- болнав adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- ипохондрик noun (person obsessed with their health)
Finnish
1 entries- sairaalloinen adj (of infirm health; sickly)
French
2 entries- valétudinaire adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- hypocondriaque noun (person obsessed with their health)
Georgian
3 entries- ავადმყოფი adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- არაჯანსაღი adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- ჰიპოქონდრიაკი noun (person obsessed with their health)
German
4 entries- gebrechlich adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- kraftlos adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- kränkelnd adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- kränklich adj (of infirm health; sickly)
Greek
2 entries- υποχονδριακός adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- υποχόνδριος noun (person obsessed with their health)
Italian
1 entries- valetudinario adj (of infirm health; sickly)
Portuguese
1 entries- valetudinário adj (of infirm health; sickly)
Spanish
2 entries- valetudinario adj (of infirm health; sickly)
- hipocondríaco noun (person obsessed with their health)
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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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