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solicitude|səˈlɪsɪtjuːd|
Also 5–6 sol-, 6 sollycytude, 6–8 sollicitude, 6 -ud.
[a. OF. sol-, sollicitude (mod.F. sollicitude, = Sp. solicitud, Pg. solicitude, It. solli-, sollecitudine), or ad. L. sōl-, sollicitūdo, f. sollicitus solicit a.]
1. The state of being solicitous or uneasy in mind; disquietude, anxiety; care, concern.
a1412Lydg. Two Merchants 580 So ar we travailed with solicitude. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. (1617) 178 Sollicitude, feare, sadnesse, sleepe it drowneth in. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) M vij b, Such as are of a delicate bloudde, haue not soo much sollicitude as the rustical people. a1631Donne Select. (1840) 169 Lazarus come forth..from your waters..of solicitude. 1684Contempl. State of Man i. i. (1699) 4 What we desire with impatience, being possessed, brings Care and Solicitude. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. iii. i. §1 Yet did the disturbance..in his soul plainly appear by the solicitude he was in. 1769Robertson Chas. V, iv. Wks. 1813 V. 413 Bourbon, on his part, was far from being free from solicitude. 1833I. Taylor Fanaticism v. 102 Free from solicitude, because free from wants. 1849W. Irving Mahomed vii. (1853) 36 These, and other causes of solicitude, preyed upon his spirits.
2. Anxious, special, or particular care or attention.
a1535More Treatise Sacr. Wks. 1266 What diligence can here suffyse vs? What solicitude can we thynke here ynough? agaynste the cummyng of thys almightye king. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 185, I could wish that the sollicitude and care of the elder [brother] savoured rather of a companion..than of a father. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 39 ⁋4 That it is not to be envied for its happiness, appears from the solicitude with which it is avoided. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. Pref. 7 He has endeavoured, with no small degree of solicitude, to engage their generous affections. 1847Disraeli Tancred i. ii, Never had such solicitude been lavished on human being. 1879W. J. Loftie Ride in Egypt 173 The antiquities of Egypt have been made subjects of Government solicitude.
b. Const. about, for, or to (with inf.).
c1475Henryson Poems (S.T.S.) III. 60 The grete sollicitude..to wyn this warldis gud, Cessis furthwith. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xxiv. (S.T.S.) I. 229 Þe pepill tuke na sollicitude bot alanerlie for sic thingis as mycht erast fortifie þis new law. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 11 There is in every man a solicitude how to live, and so to live that his living be not a burden. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. Wks. 1874 I. 34 There is reason also for the most active thought and solicitude, to secure that interest. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 174 ⁋14 This alarm which they spread by their solicitude to escape me. 1837Lockhart Scott II. vii. 256 That lively solicitude about points of antiquarian detail. 1865Kingsley Herew. x, They manifested affectionate solicitude for them.
†c. Const. of. Obs.
1490Caxton Eneydos xii. 43 Nor wyth hym remayneth nother..care ne solycytude of thy loue. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 26 His grace taketh the care and sollicitud therof. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 D ij, He hath sollycytude of all the body. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xii. 52 To be in a perpetuall solicitude of the time to come.
3. pl. Cares, troubles, anxieties, etc.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 98 Alle werkes & operacyions humayne, with their solicitudes. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. Q iij b, Aske yf he hath had great solycytudes, & chargeable thoughtes. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. xvi. 58 Those hard trialls and disquieting solicitudes that naturally will attempt them. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirror of Stones p. iv, You may refresh your mind, wearied with perpetual sollicitudes and labours. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxii, Mrs. Todgers looked a little worn by cares of gravy and other such solicitudes. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. i, To her the destinies of mankind..made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam.
†4. Solicitation; importunate petition. Obs.—1
1556Aurelio & Isab. (1608) B iv, Isabell became verye sore in love with him, seing the verye greate sollicitude and requeste that he made unto her.
Hence † solicitudeness. Obs. rare.
1547Boorde Brev. Health ccliii. 85 b, It may come of solicitudenes or great study occupyenge the memory so much that it is fracted. Ibid. cccxxi. 104 Yf it come by great study and solicitudnes. |