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solicitous, a.|səˈlɪsɪtəs|
Also 6–8 sollicitous.
[f. L. sōl-, sollicit-us (see solicit a.) + -ous. Cf. OF. sol(l)icitoux, -eux.]
†1. Full of care or concern; anxious, apprehensive, disquiet. Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. v, Ever suspitious, anxious, sollicitous, they are childishly drooping without reason. 1658in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 78 Good natures are sollicitous when a misapprehension befalls them. 1674Milton P.R. ii. 120 There without sign of boast, or sign of joy, Sollicitous and blank he thus began. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sollicitous, full of Care and Fear, troubled or much concerned about a thing. 1741Middleton Cicero I. iii. 209 They began to be sollicitous.
2. Troubled, anxious, or deeply concerned, on some specified account. Const. with preps., as about, for, of, etc.
(a)1570Foxe A. & M. I. 159/2 He willeth him alwaies to be sollicitous for his soule. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. Ep. Ded. p. iv, Moses, when he tarried at home, was very sollicitous for his countrimen in the field. 1699Bentley Phal. 422 For a bare Error of the Memory I shall not be solicitous. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. i. I. 302 The boat was sent away..; and we were not a little solicitous for her return. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 11 Sollicitous chiefly for the peace of my own country, but by no means unconcerned for yours. 1810Bentham Art of Packing (1821) 50 The solicitor for the smuggler is solicitous for the smuggler, because,..in being solicitous for his client, he is solicitous for him⁓self. 1845S. Austin tr. Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 315 They deemed that such an one would be more solicitous for their welfare..than a stranger.
(b)1647N. Bacon Govt. Eng. ii. xiii. (1739) 71 These foreign Engagements made the King less sollicitous of the point of Prerogative at home. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 16 One so sollicitous of other Mens Healths, cannot be unmindful of his own. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 124 Scarce any shew themselves to advantage, who are over solicitous of doing so. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxx, Your Highness will not expect me to be very solicitous of Henry Smith's interest. 1841Emerson Ess. i. Prudence, You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
(c)1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. Introd., The Persian Magi..being only solicitous about their Bones [etc.]. a1683Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 14 In this condition the best of Men are apt to be solicitous about their Answers. 1709–29V. Mandey Syst. Math., Astron. 351 Concerning those, Astronomers are not Sollicitous, by reason of the Smallness. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 330 He was undiligent and effectless—chiefly solicitous about his trousers and gloves.
b. With dependent clause.
1639Massinger Unnatural Combat iii. ii, He found him Solicitous in what shape she should appear. 1647H. More Poems Ded., I am not indeed much solicitous, how every particle of these Poems may please you. 1764Goldsm. Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 57 This weak monarch was in no way solicitous who succeeded. 1784Cowper Task iv. 433 Much solicitous how best He may compensate for a day of sloth. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonement ix. (1852) 285 Why so solicitous that we should be reconciled? 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 529 The delegates of the States were chiefly solicitous lest they should be attacked by the remnant of the order in Germany.
3. Extremely or particularly careful or attentive; taking the utmost heed or care.
1609Bible (Douay) Micah vi. 8 comm., To love mercie, and to walke solicitous with thy God. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §33 Move circumspectly, not meticulously, and rather carefully sollicitous, than anxiously sollicitudinous. 1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. vi. §41 Under a solicitous and attentive government the ordinary preceptor..is but a deputy as it were to the magistrate.
4. Anxious, eager, desirous:
a. With to and inf.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §21 The Prince..was transported with the thought of it, and most impatiently sollicitous to bring it to pass. 1693J. Edwards Auth. O. & N. Test. 384 Those learned and pious writers..were not solicitous to go any farther. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. ix. (ed. 4) 316 We were very solicitous to get some positive intelligence. 1779Mirror No. 19, These peculiarities serve only..to make her more solicitous to prevent their effects. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. viii. 284 Whose alliance Hyder was solicitous to gain. 1867D. Duncan Disc. vii. 146 God is willing, nay, solicitous to confer these blessings.
b. With in (governing nouns of action).
1628Sir R. Le Grys Barclay's Argenis 274 To the most of them the Kings being so solicitous in this businesse was not pleasing. 1665Walton Life Hooker 241 All this time he was solicitous in his study. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. i. xv. (1824) I. 101 While the merchant and the mariner are solicitous in describing currents and soundings.
5. Marked or characterized by anxiety, care, or concern:
a. Of actions, study, etc.
1563Foxe A. & M. 1260/1 Whose industrie was alwayes sollicitous, not onelye to them of hys owne companye, but also..for other prysoners. 1645E. Reynolds Serm. Hosea vi. 64 A symbole, first, of vigilant care and most intent and sollicitous inspection and providence. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 443 The Government of some of them is toilsom and sollicitous. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vi, An attentive, solicitous, perhaps painful exercise of their understanding about it. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. ii. (1867) 32 A solicitous dissection of the changing emotions of the religious life. 1863H. Rogers Life J. Howe i. 14 It is not after the method of a severe logic or a too solicitous philosophy.
b. Of cares, thoughts, etc.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 242 The sollicitous cares of his mind, which dry his very bones. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xvi. 133 He was in this sad quandary and sollicitous pensiveness. a1703Burkitt On N.T. Luke xii. 30 This vexatious care, and solicitous thoughtfulness. 1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 55 Being the less incumber'd with uneasy Cares and solicitous Vexations.
c. Of life or conditions.
1661Gauden in C. Wordsworth Documentary Suppl. (1825) 19, I doe not desire to live long in this distracted and solicitous condition. 1673Temple United Prov. Wks. 1720 I. 25 The Royal Servitude of a sollicitous Life.
6. Of features: Suggestive of solicitude or anxiety.
1868Swinburne Ess. & Studies (1875) 362 The features resolute, solicitous, heroic. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xi, It was not possible for a human aspect to be freer from grimace or solicitous wrigglings. |