The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solicitous \So*lic"it*ous\, a.[L. sollicitus, solicitus. See
Solicit, v. t.]
Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or
to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
``Solicitous of my reputation.''
--Dryden. ``He was
solicitous for his advice.''
--Calerendon.
Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not
solicitous about the future.
--Jer. Taylor.
The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not
enough solicitous to finish the fortifications.
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster] -- So*lic"it*ous*ly, adv. --
So*lic"it*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a solicitous manner.
WordNet
adv. in a concerned and solicitous manner; "`Don't you feel well?' his mother asked solicitously"
Usage examples of "solicitously".
Other women were patting her solicitously, and an ancient shawlie kept rocking back and forth and wailing in Irish, Ochene, ochenef.
With the boxed electronic ear tucked under an arm, Andi arrived three minutes early and was solicitously ushered by Mrs.
Colton bent near solicitously, but when she shuddered convulsively after casting another distressed glance beyond him, he looked around in curiosity to see what had provoked this reaction from her and mentally cursed when he espied Alice Cobble, not only present against his wishes, but in the same slovenly condition she had been in when he had first brought her from London.
He went over to help Heribert up off the ground, and Sister Venia hastened up to brush off the young cleric as solicitously as if he were a three-year-old.
Kip peers and sees little Prince Pao solicitously attempting to assist the larger and athletic Stareem up a gulch.
Diana was stumbling now and Fitzroy Toussaint, dazzling in his dark suit, took her arm solicitously.
Quentin cajoled and solicitously laid an arm about her shoulders as he began to guide her toward the stairs.
Filmer, extremely smooth in a dark suit and grey tie, solicitously removed Daffodil's chinchillas and hung them over the back of her chair.
She seats me across from her, makes sure that I don’t want any coffee or other refreshment, nods away her aide, commiserates with me again on the death of my dear friends (she had been there at the Memorial Service at which the President had spoken), chats with me for another minute about how amazing life is now with the Song connecting all of us, and then questions me for a few minutes, sensitively, solicitously, about my physical recovery (complete), my state of mind (shaken but improving), my generous stipend from the government (already invested), and my plans for the future.
Emerson says, in the Prospectus of his Female Seminary, “For many years I have been solicitously inquiring for the best Compend of General History for the use of Schools.
The one who had carried the cricket bat asked Savage solicitously what he would have.
She took his arm solicitously when he reeled against a sooty brick wall, leaving a dark streak of damp down his once-fine shirt, which had seen far better days in the fashionable West End.
The sight of the chubby newsman bumbling into obvious traps and getting tangled in pulleys and inclined planes with bowling balls atop them, while Leoh solicitously urged him to be careful every step of the way, struck most people as funny.
He carried Kasyx back past San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente and Cardiff -on-Sea, slowly and gently and as solicitously as a son.