Crossword clues for solicitousness
solicitousness
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
n. The state or quality of being solicitous.
WordNet
n. a feeling of excessive concern [syn: solicitude]
Usage examples of "solicitousness".
With great solicitousness they greeted Hissune and took him at once to the liftshaft reserved for Powers and their emissaries, which carried him swiftly down to the deep imperial levels of the Labyrinth.
Nangi's extreme solicitousness had set Nicholas's teeth on edge, another bad sign of his deteriorating emotional state.
She could almost imagine the scene in Egdril's bedchamber, with Mavron in filial attendance and doubtless, that woman, exuding solicitousness for her dying husband, just waiting until he had been pronounced dead before she entrapped the true heir to the throne.
In her porcelain beauty he had resurrected something of his first wife Jeannette, dead for more than a century, and in her selfless solicitousness he had memorialized something of his mother as well, but those traits had only been imposed on Isis out of his own memory.