Definition of with due deference:
"the valetudinarian habit of discussing his health had grown on Rose... -- Florence Anne Sellar MacCunn, Sir Walter Scott's Friends, 1910, p. 234"
(n) :
a person in poor health or
sickly, expecially one who is constantly
obsessed with their state of
health
"the most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. -- Thomas Jefferson, The Writings oF Thomas Jefferson, 1904, p. 168."