solicitude
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ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud noun
1.
the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
2.
solicitudes, causes of anxiety or care.
3.
an attitude expressing excessive attentiveness: to show great solicitude about his wife's health.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the state or quality of being solicitous |
| 2. | (often plural) something that causes anxiety or concern |
| 3. | anxiety or concern |
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Example sentences
They the proceeded to the house where he was lying, exhibiting of course intense anxiety and solicitude.
Seldom has any legislative body been the subject of a solicitude more intense, or of aspirations more sincere and ardent.
The chief solicitude of the rich and of the ruler in the old civilization had been to keep up a supply of drudges.
There has always been in him a certain hovering if undependable solicitude for me, a solicitude he knows no way of expressing.
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