solicitude

There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

Above all else he did not want Winifred to know that solicitude in her behalf had drawn him from the path of duty.

Our solicitude was now required solely for Joe, whose head was too deeply buried to be exhumed with so much facility.

An offer which Jane received from a very honest, industrious, and thrifty jeweler, aroused anew a mother's maternal solicitude.