What does "concerning" mean?
Concerning: The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x.
Additional senses
- 2.Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.
- 3.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.Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. Jer. Taylor.
- 5.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.Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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