† solicitancyn.
Obsolete. rare.
Soliciting.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > earnest request or entreaty > beseeching or importuning
beseechinga1350
suit1372
beggingc1380
pursuita1393
supplicationa1393
cravingc1430
entreating1525
solicitation1533
entreatance1548
precation1548
suiting1560
soliciting1570
imploration1575
importuning1582
implore1590
suing1591
treating1595
exoration1610
implorement1611
imploring1611
suppliance?1611
importunement1665
solicitancy1665
beseechmenta1680
instancing1736
suppliancy1812
beg1814
clamouring1884
opportuning1972
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 26 Yet, lest Absolon should be numbred among those weak wooers,..he rears his Battery, though with a more easie sollicitancy, than he did at first.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 154 At her Hands, from whose Sollicitancy he had received his Reprieve.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxvi. 551 Those persons obey a curiously narrow teleological superstition who think themselves bound to interpret them [sc. the impulsions] in every instance as effects of the secret solicitancy of pleasure and repugnancy of pain.
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