He was a little disposed towards valetudinarianism, and was apt to imagine himself visited by divers diseases.

From the foregoing it is clear that valetudinarianism, if it prove anything, proves not that it renders intellectual effort impossible, but that it serves as a discipline for the soul.

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.

He scorned the sickliness of the Rousseau school as, in spite of his constitutional melancholy, he scorned valetudinarianism whether of the bodily or the spiritual order.

He was tormented by presentiments of misfortune; he indulged a kind of romantic valetudinarianism.