Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sollicit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sol-lic-it
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Obsolete spelling of solicit.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye."
"PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers."
"1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128, […] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]"

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

sollicits (present, singular) solliciting (participle, present) sollicited (participle, past) sollicited (past)

Questions

What does sollicit mean?: Obsolete spelling of solicit.

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