Preposition: for

• safety: One nearly arrived in the royal box, and Sir Herbert Wilberforce was solicitous for the safety of the royalty there.

Modifies a noun

• care: First a solicitous care for the body, then Satan tempts a risk of the body.

• attention: The fits and fasts were the means by which Sarah could prolong the solicitous attention she had received during her real illness.

• inquiry: A kind word, a solicitous inquiry, a cigarette, changed his attitude.

• father: Will not a fond mother, a solicitous father, give to a beloved child everything within a parent's power?

Modifying Another Word

• very: During the first few days I thought she seemed very solicitous to win his admiration.

• so: The dependence on investment income perhaps explains why the government is so solicitous toward the City.

• extremely: Or could it be that Abraham was, as a fond father, extremely solicitous of his son's welfare and safety?

• particularly: Their lashes flash blue or violet, and they are particularly solicitous of male shoppers.

• equally: Everyone there ( I was the only American ) were equally solicitous.