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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. Concern"ing a.Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South. Concern"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. スポンサード リンク
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