adv. [f. prec.] In a solicitous manner, in various senses of the adj.

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1614.  T. Adams, Semper Idem, Wks. (1629), 857. Many parents are solicitously perplexed, how their children shall doe when they are dead.

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1674.  Boyle, Excellency Theol., I. ii. 66. It needs not be solicitously proved.

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1733.  Swift, Apol., Wks. 1755, IV. I. 213. You … Do now solicitously shun The cooler air, and dazzling sun.

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1799.  Monthly Rev., XXX. 297. They solicitously shun all commerce with Europeans.

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1817.  J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 87. The finest faces hung solicitously over it.

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1856.  S. Davidson, Bibl. Criticism, xlv. 685. Many Slavic words are formed solicitously after the Greek.

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