'Concerning' definitions:
Definition of 'Concerning'
From: GCIDE
- Concerning \Con*cern"ing\, prep. Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. [1913 Webster]
- I have accepted thee concerning this thing. --Gen. xix. 21. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. --Num. x. 29. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Concerning'
From: GCIDE
- Concerning \Con*cern"ing\, a. Important. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- So great and so concerning truth. --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Concerning'
From: GCIDE
- Concerning \Con*cern"ing\, n.
- 1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- To mix with thy concernments I desist. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Importance; moment; consequence. [1913 Webster]
- Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Concern; participation; interposition. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. [1913 Webster]
- While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Concerning'
From: GCIDE
- Concern \Con*cern"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concerned; p. pr. & vb. n. Concerning.] [F. concerner, LL. concernere to regard, concern, fr. L. concernere to mix or mingle together, as in a sieve for separating; con- + cernere to separate, sift, distinguish by the senses, and especially by the eyes, to perceive, see. See Certain.]
- 1. To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. [1913 Webster]
- Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. --Acts xxviii. 31. [1913 Webster]
- Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. --Dodsley. [1913 Webster]
- Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. --J. F. Cooper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. [1913 Webster]
- They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'concerning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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