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n. - A feeling of excessive concern.

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  • His young wife was there, and supported him with tender solicitude toward a seat.
  • My solicitude is so great, and my suspense so painful, that I cannot rest a moment in peace, or turn my thoughts into any other channel.
  • The real and principal object of my anxiety and solicitude is you, and the situation in which you have been so unjustly placed, by the circumstances which have taken place.
  • Now sloth is opposed to solicitude, which is an act of prudence, as stated above (Q. 47, A. 9).
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