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• n  a feeling of excessive concern

• Why the sudden solicitude for employees' well-being? You can probably guess.
• And if her heart beats with a tone of disquiet, if it echoes with solicitude and the cry for the conversion and strengthening of consciences, this invitation must be accepted.
• The Ethiopians, as they left Captain Eden and proceeded to blab his solicitude for Haile Selassie's dignity, knew that both the Credentials Committee and the Steering Committee .

• solicitousness

Quotes

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• Thurgood Marshall in The Hill (blog)
  Kagan also quoted Marshall as saying the Supreme Court's mission was to "show a special solicitude for the despised and the disadvantaged."
• John Paul Stevens in Clovis News Journal
  But in his majority opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens said that as a sovereign state, Massachusetts is "entitled to special solicitude in our standing analysis."