Both Uses of
solicitous
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- With unusual solicitude he uttered his stock phrase, "Well, what seems to be the matter, Maud?"†
Chpt 25 *solicitude = behavior that shows care or concern for someone
- Carol had never been awake to the earth except as a show of changing color and great satisfying masses; she had lived in people and in ideas about having ideas; but Hugh's questions made her attentive to the comedies of sparrows, robins, blue jays, yellowhammers; she regained her pleasure in the arching flight of swallows, and added to it a solicitude about their nests and family squabbles.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
showing care or concern for someone