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SOLICITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of excessive concern
Synonyms:
solicitousness; solicitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("solicitude" is a kind of...):
concern (a feeling of sympathy for someone or something)
Context examples:
At first she had tolerated with sisterly fondness what she conceived to be his foolishness; but now, out of sisterly solicitude, she grew anxious.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This gaiety did not impose upon anybody, but they tried to look as if it did for his sake, and he got on very well till Mrs. March kissed him, with a whisper full of motherly solicitude.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Old Bilder examined him all over with most tender solicitude, and when he had finished with his penitent said:—There, I knew the poor old chap would get into some kind of trouble; didn't I say it all along?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Such, for half an hour, was the conversation—interrupted only once by Mrs. Weston, who came out, in her solicitude after her son-in-law, to inquire if he were come—and she was a little uneasy.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The real solicitude now awakened in the maternal bosom was not soon over.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But now, another occupation and solicitude of mind was beginning to be added to these.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I would not on any account trifle with her affectionate solicitude; or allow her to hear it from anyone but myself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I answered the solicitude which his face expressed, by conveying the same expression into my own, and shaking my head.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I waited, smiling inwardly at the woman of her which compelled a solicitude for Wolf Larsen, of all creatures.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
