[f. SOLICITOUS a.] The state or quality of being solicitous; care, concern; anxiety, solicitude.
1636. Divine Tragedie lately Acted, 41. Free your selves on that [Lords] day, as much as may be from worldly cares and sollicitousnesse.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, II. I. 123. To behold them with such passion and solicitousness endeavouring the good of Christianity.
1709. J. Clarke, trans. Grotius’ Chr. Relig., II. xiv. (1818), 122. Solicitousness in procuring and preserving riches.
1724. in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827), II. 146. He did run fast … in great Solicitousness of coming short of his Task.
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Mad. Crowd, xlvi. This spoliated effort of his new-born solicitousness.
