Talk:solicitude
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic 2. something causing concern (often in the plural)
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Rfv-sense: Diligence motivated by such a feeling. Quotation from 1387. DTLHS (talk) 16:37, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- Seems to me that the prev def "a feeling of excessive concern" might be better defined simply as "special concern or attention" (rather than a 'feeling' of it), in which case it would subsume the next def "Diligence motivated by such a feeling" which seems to me to be overspecified. Certainly the example in the citation from the Polychronicon could be read to simply mean the "care or concern of writers". -Sonofcawdrey (talk) 06:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
RFV-resolved I took Sonofcawdrey's suggestion and merged the two definitions. Kiwima (talk) 20:13, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
2. something causing concern (often in the plural)[edit]
2. a cause of concern or uneasiness (often used in the plural) Microsoft® Encarta® 2009