Dictionary entry

Concerning (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.