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单词 valetudinary
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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.
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