All 5 Uses of
solicitous
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipotent nature's incorrupted benefaction.†
Chpt 14
- The guarded glance of half solicitude half curiosity augmented by friendliness which he gave at Stephen's at present morose expression of features did not throw a flood of light, none at all in fact on the problem as to whether he had let himself be badly bamboozled to judge by two or three lowspirited remarks he let drop or the other way about saw through the affair and for some reason or other best known to himself allowed matters to more or less.†
Chpt 16
- With circumspection, as invariably when entering an abode (his own or not his own): with solicitude, the snakespiral springs of the mattress being old, the brass quoits and pendent viper radii loose and tremulous under stress and strain: prudently, as entering a lair or ambush of lust or adders: lightly, the less to disturb: reverently, the bed of conception and of birth, of consummation of marriage and of breach of marriage, of sleep and of death.†
Chpt 17
- An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.†
Chpt 17 *
- A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(solicitous) showing care or concern for someone