Definition of SOLICITUDE

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care, concern, solicitude, anxiety, worry mean a troubled or engrossed state of mind or the thing that causes this. care implies oppression of the mind weighed down by responsibility or disquieted by apprehension. a face worn by years of care concern implies a troubled state of mind because of personal interest, relation, or affection. crimes caused concern in the neighborhood solicitude implies great concern and connotes either thoughtful or hovering attentiveness toward another. acted with typical maternal solicitude anxiety stresses anguished uncertainty or fear of misfortune or failure. plagued by anxiety and self-doubt worry suggests fretting over matters that may or may not be real cause for anxiety. financial worries

Examples of solicitude in a Sentence

He expressed solicitude for my health. a growing solicitude over the possible results of the criminal investigation

Recent Examples on the Web

Although the number of high-poverty white communities is growing (many are rural; solicitude for these prompted Texas Republicans to support the Ten Percent Plan), poor whites are less likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods than poor blacks. — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, "What you should know about race-based affirmative action and diversity in schools," 3 July 2018 And then, my solicitude surprised no one, not me, not him, not our friends and family. — Carolita Johnson, Longreads, "A Woman’s Work: Home Economics," 21 June 2018 Despite Trump’s personal solicitude of Vladimir Putin, his administration’s policies on Russia have been hawkish. — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, "You’re Either With Trump on Trade, or Against Him," 5 Apr. 2018 Energetic and capable, but often drunk, the senior Ms. Shields is portrayed in her daughter’s memoir with an unlikely blend of solicitude and pain. — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, "Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC," 14 Mar. 2018 Moreover, the president’s determination that an exercise of his own power was unconstitutional warrants the court’s solicitude. — Josh Blackman, National Review, "A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can’t End DACA," 10 Jan. 2018 All of this tremendous deference to the religious sensitivities of the objectors is balanced against, well, no solicitude at all for the interests on the opposing side. — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, "The Case Against Neil Gorsuch," 19 Mar. 2017 And yet these judges evince far more solicitude for former convicts’ right to bear arms than their right to vote. — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, "The Only Constitutional Right That Matters," 9 May 2017 If America’s policy toward China for the first four decades since normalization in 1979 can be described as benevolent solicitude, this new policy is one of flinty reciprocity. — John Pomfret, The Denver Post, "How Trump could put U.S.-China relations on the right track," 7 Feb. 2017

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