prep dealing with (formal.) ○ He filled in a questionnaire concerning holidays. ○ I’d like to speak to Mr Robinson concerning his application for insurance. ○ Anyone with information concerning this person should get in touch with the police.
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.”
Gen. xix. 21.” “The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Num. x. 29.”
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.”
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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