solicitude - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • have: You owe it to us all to resist him in this, even if you have no solicitude for yourself.

Preposition: for

  • welfare: This solicitude for the welfare of the departed exhibits itself by the giving of religious feasts.

Adjective modifier

  • great: Mr. Stanley professed a great solicitude to warm his hands.
  • maternal: I offer and consecrate my person and all my interests to your care and maternal solicitude.
  • affectionate: In the beginning of the year 1850 his decline became visible and the Nuns watched over his health with affectionate solicitude.
  • critical: Ultimately, critical solicitude rests on mutual recognition of one another as capable, vulnerable selves.
  • real: Their arrival seemed to afford him real satisfaction, and their comfort to be an object of real solicitude to him.

Noun used with modifier

  • tender: His young wife was there, and supported him with tender solicitude toward a seat.

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