
Meaning of CONCERNING
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [adj] referring or directing attention to; "as to what we have discussed..."; "in relation to your inquiry..."; "income vis-a-vis expenditures" |
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| | Synonyms: | | as to, in regard to, in relation to, regarding, related, related to, vis-a-vis, with reference to, with regard to, with respect to |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Con*cern"ing\, 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.
\Con*cern"ing\, a.
Important. [Archaic]
So great and so concerning truth. --South.
\Con*cern"ing\, n.
1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern;
affair; interest. ``Our everlasting concernments.'' --I.
Watts.
To mix with thy concernments I desist. --Milton.
2. Importance; moment; consequence.
Let every action of concernment to begun with
prayer. --Jer. Taylor.
3. 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.
4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.
While they are so eager to destroy the fame of
others, their ambition is manifest in their
concernment. --Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | about, against, anent, apropos of, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, in connection with, in point of, in re, in reference to, in regard to, in relation to, in relation with, in respect to, of, on, pertaining to, pertinent to, re, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, speaking of, touching, upon, with regard to, with respect to |
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