Meanings
comparative more valetudinous · superlative most valetudinous
- obsoletevaletudinarian; ill, sick
the valetudinous condition of King Edward
1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC1 more example
Symptoms pointing to mild hepatic and gastrointestinal derangement have thus recurred for several years. The family declined an operation until finally the youth, becoming weary of his valetudinous condition, took the matter into his own hands and went to the hospital.
1906, California State Journal of Medicine, volume 4, page 169
Origin
- Latinvalētūdō
- Latinvalētūdin-
- Englishvaletudinous
From Latin valētūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin valētūdō, from valeō + -tūdō. By surface analysis, valetude + -ous.
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