SOLICITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solicitude mean? 

• SOLICITUDE (noun)
  The noun SOLICITUDE has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of excessive concern

  Familiarity information: SOLICITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLICITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of excessive concern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

solicitousness; solicitude

Hypernyms ("solicitude" is a kind of...):

concern (a feeling of sympathy for someone or something)

 Context examples 

Yes, sir, I did indeed; and I am very much obliged by your kind solicitude about me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There was employment, hope, solicitude, bustle, for every hour of the day.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Where was her solicitude for me, I thought,—for me whom she had been afraid to have merely peep aboard?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When breakfast was over they were joined by the sisters; and Elizabeth began to like them herself, when she saw how much affection and solicitude they showed for Jane.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My dear Miss Morland, said Henry, in this amiable solicitude for your brother's comfort, may you not be a little mistaken?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

These points formed her chief solicitude in anticipating her removal from Uppercross, where she felt she had been stationed quite long enough.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Their arrival seemed to afford him real satisfaction, and their comfort to be an object of real solicitude to him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He believed he was an indulgent father (as indeed he was), and I might spare myself any solicitude on her account.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)