Definition of Solicitous

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Definition of Solicitous
	Solicitous Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful. Related Definitions: Anxious, Anything, Avoid, Careful, Concerned, Desirable, Disposed, Eager, Evil, Obtain, Or, Solicit, Something, To

Solicitous Quotations

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher Columbus

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Thomas Malthus

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
Karl Philipp Moritz

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
James Wolfe

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