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solicitude

/suh-lis-i-tood, -tyood/US // səˈlɪs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud //UK // (səˈlɪsɪˌtjuːd) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
    • : solicitudes, causes of anxiety or care.
    • : an attitude expressing excessive attentiveness: to show great solicitude about his wife's health.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounworry, anxiety

Examples

  • There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

  • Above all else he did not want Winifred to know that solicitude in her behalf had drawn him from the path of duty.

  • Our solicitude was now required solely for Joe, whose head was too deeply buried to be exhumed with so much facility.

  • An offer which Jane received from a very honest, industrious, and thrifty jeweler, aroused anew a mother's maternal solicitude.

  • Then bending over Oliver, he helped to carry him up stairs with the care and solicitude of a woman.