Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a solicitous manner; anxiously; with care or concern.

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  • adverb In a solicitous manner.

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  • adverb in a concerned and solicitous manner

Etymologies

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solicitous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Did you see them leading him so solicitously from the platform?

    Chapter 7: The Bishop's Vision 2010

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • Cat bit back the unladylike oath on the tip of her tongue as she rubbed at her leg. Tried to forget the man hovering solicitously beside her.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • "I do not know, except that it is my way," Ah Kim replied, gazing solicitously at his mother.

    THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

  • The worse thing that the president can do is to listen to anyone who solicitously whispers in his ear that he can maintain his current bearings without some mid-course political and foreign policy accommodations to the new Congress.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

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