Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Solicitous.
  • To solicit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Solicitous.

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  • adjective obsolete solicitous

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Examples

  • Similarly superfluous are cohabitate for cohabit, interpretate for interpret, and solicitate for solicit.

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  • Similarly superfluous are cohabitate for cohabit, interpretate for interpret, and solicitate for solicit.

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  • This is because while Obama doesn't solicitate votes based on race, she HAS consistently made it a case that she is victimized for her gender to rally feminists and women.

    Newsweek: Obama's Appalachia Problem Is Real 2009

  • These boys when left as destitute are forced to move to the cities where they solicitate customers, a fact well known in the social circles including families.

    - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community Veena 2008

  • 'A right and diligent institution of the discipline of citizens, and of the schools a just correction and nurture, with liberality towards the ministers of the Church, with a solicitate and thoughtful charge of the poor, to which end all the riches of the Church [in German, _die Güter der Kirche_] is referred. '[

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

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