solicitude
IPA: sʌɫˈɪsɪtud
noun
- The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety.
- Special or pronounced concern or attention.
- A cause of anxiety or concern.
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Examples of "solicitude" in Sentences
- He expressed solicitude for them.
- This is the Father's solicitude for us.
- My hat off to you, sir, full marks for promptness and solicitude.
- The Confederate prisoners were the special objects of her solicitude.
- No president has acted with more solicitude toward polluting industries.
- Do you feel that these poor, oppressed creatures deserve special solicitude
- Now sloth is opposed to solicitude, which is an act of prudence, as stated above (Q. 47, A. 9).
- This interchange is so touching, both the fatherly solicitude of the Pope and the trusting request of Valentina.
- He represents for us the guide of Christ himself in the history, and his solicitude is the salvation of the world.
- Hu Jintao expressed profound sympathy with and faithful solicitude to the U.S. government and its people over the tragedy.
- I was telling you that even though I am a man and physically stronger than you, I will treat you with both respect and solicitude.
- My solicitude is so great, and my suspense so painful, that I cannot rest a moment in peace, or turn my thoughts into any other channel.
- Should religion enjoy a special status that merits a degree of solicitude and protection not granted to other worldviews or systems of belief
- The child, become an object of anxious solicitude, is usually restrained from the more hardy play of his young neighbors, and a retarded physical development is the result.
- The real and principal object of my anxiety and solicitude is you, and the situation in which you have been so unjustly placed, by the circumstances which have taken place.
- For that cannot be a true solicitude, which is not produced in the heart by any other means except by an irresistible force according to the absolute purpose and intention of
- In short, the object of his solicitude was a stout, leathern valise, in the wagon, and which was so heavy that it required the strength of two ordinary men to handle it easily.
- As soon as the house was quiet he returned to the turret, made desperate by reflecting on her distress, and thinking it better to hazard a discovery than to leave her a whole night in solicitude so alarming.