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solicitous
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Definition:1. Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil.2. Anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause)text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort, and he had himself looked over the house, and given instructions about everything that he considered necessary.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was solicitous about his feelings;
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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'You are too solicitous about him. He is very well.'
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity—I was still by nature solicitous to be neat.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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