单词 | valetudinarianism |
释义 | valetudinarianism (once / 437753 pages) n WORD FAMILY valetudinarian: valetudinarianism, valetudinarians USAGE EXAMPLESHe was a little disposed towards valetudinarianism, and was apt to imagine himself visited by divers diseases. Marsh, Richard, Between the Dark and the Daylight(2011) Well, I ought to be glad, after ten years of the worst training on earth—valetudinarianism—that I can still be troubled by a duty. Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson...(2010) He was tormented by presentiments of misfortune; he indulged a kind of romantic valetudinarianism. Gosse, Edmund, Three French Moralists and The Gall...(2010) n the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) Syn|Hypo|Hyper debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity asthenia, astheny an abnormal loss of strength cachexia, cachexy, wastingany general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease softness, unfitness poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury) |
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