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soˈlicitousness
[f. solicitous a.]
The state or quality of being solicitous; care, concern; anxiety, solicitude.
1636Divine Tragedie lately Acted 41 Free your selves on that day..from worldly cares and sollicitousnesse. 1670G. H. Hist. of Cardinals ii. i. 123 To behold them with such passion and solicitousness endeavouring the good of Christianity. 1709J. Clarke tr. Grotius' Chr. Relig. ii. xiv. (1818) 122 Solicitousness in procuring and preserving riches. 1724in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) II. 146 He did run fast..in great Solicitousness of coming short of his Task. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xlvi, This spoliated effort of his new-born solicitousness. |