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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