(n.) A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
(v. i.) To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
(v. t.) To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ramsey Cark, a former US attorney general, who lead the defence of Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, said the unanimous verdicts were a travesty of justice and that there would be an appeal.
Solicitude
Definition:
(n.) The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or that British ministers would one day talk again with affectionate solicitude about French and German unemployment rates.
(2) Unattractive patients also received higher ratings of solicitude on the doctor's part and lower ratings of health than attractive patients.
(3) Geimer's book expresses it with literate sarcasm: referring to a sympathetic psychological report after Polanski's arrest, which cited his "solicitude concerning pregnancy" as a mitigating factor, Geimer says this was "an interesting new euphemism for sodomy".
(4) He also expressed solicitude for “the rights of the employees.” But Justice Kennedy also had reservations about whether the government could require the companies in the case to provide coverage in light of the many exemptions and accommodations it has offered to other groups.
(5) Medical residents (N = 60) viewed the photographs and rated each patient's pain, distress, negative affective experience, health, personality, blame for the situation, and the physician's own solicitude for the patient.
(6) No doubt his promise is cheap when the next general election is close and the Tories need to show their solicitude for the north; delivery will be much more expensive, and construction is a long way away, not least because the initial plan is only to link Manchester and Leeds.
(7) They were apparently prompted by jokey comments portraying Putin’s solicitude as improper – a no-go in a country where coverage of leaders’ families is strictly controlled.
(8) The reasons for the good results are to be seen not only in widening of indications of obstetrical operations but also in improvement of solicitude, prophylactical, diagnostical and conservative therapeutic measures.