CONCERNING

prep. a. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
prep.

Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.

2.
a.

Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.

3.
n.

That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton.

4.
n.

Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. Jer. Taylor.

5.
n.

Concern; participation; interposition. He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon.

6.
n.

Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.


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