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Definitions for: Concerning [adj] referring or directing attention to; "as to what we have discussed..."; "in relation to your inquiry..."; "income vis-a-vis expenditures"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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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