>>>Haven't seen it in your message
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>>>Google "gravida noun". Voila ;-)
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>>>As for ill person- try "valetudinarian". Look for the classical definition.
>>>
>>>I'm still thinking. ;-)
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>>I was talking to a valetudinarian the other day and he said.....
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>Does he happen to know my amenuensis?

Intimately, he said.