All 3 Uses of
solicitous
in
Dubliners
- With almost maternal solicitude she urged him to let his nature open to the full: she became his confessor.†
Chpt 11 *
- Jesus Christ with His divine understanding of every cranny of our human nature, understood that all men were not called to the religious life, that by far the vast majority were forced to live in the world, and, to a certain extent, for the world: and in this sentence He designed to give them a word of counsel, setting before them as exemplars in the religious life those very worshippers of Mammon who were of all men the least solicitous in matters religious.†
Chpt 14
- The two aunts laughed heartily, too, for Gabriel's solicitude was a standing joke with them.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(solicitous) showing care or concern for someone