Definition of valetudinary in English:
valetudinary
noun & adjectivePlural valetudinaries ˌvalɪˈtjuːdɪn(ə)riˌvæləˈt(j)udnˌɛri
another term for valetudinarian
Example sentencesExamples
- How are we to expect heroic poems from a valetudinary?
- We would recommend this, not only to the weak and valetudinary, but to all whose business does not oblige them to take sufficient exercise.
- However great was his learning, he was not always immured in his chamber; but, being valetudinary, and weak of body, thought it necessary to spend many hours in such exercises as might best relieve him after the fatigue of study.
- It must have been picked up by Sir Peregrine in the course of one of his valetudinary visits to ‘The German Spa.’
- And my health being broken as above mentioned, I was valetudinary, and particularly subject to faintings.
Definition of valetudinary in US English:
valetudinary
noun & adjectiveˌvaləˈt(y)o͞odnˌerēˌvæləˈt(j)udnˌɛri
another term for valetudinarian
Example sentencesExamples
- It must have been picked up by Sir Peregrine in the course of one of his valetudinary visits to ‘The German Spa.’
- However great was his learning, he was not always immured in his chamber; but, being valetudinary, and weak of body, thought it necessary to spend many hours in such exercises as might best relieve him after the fatigue of study.
- How are we to expect heroic poems from a valetudinary?
- And my health being broken as above mentioned, I was valetudinary, and particularly subject to faintings.
- We would recommend this, not only to the weak and valetudinary, but to all whose business does not oblige them to take sufficient exercise.