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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Concerning

/kən-sẽrn'-ĭng/ approx. · Con·cern·ing · IPA /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/
01 prep. Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards.
  1. 1.
    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.
02 a. Important.
  1. 1.
    Important.[Archaic]
    “So great and so concerning truth.” — South.
03 n. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
  1. 1.
    That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
    “To mix with thy concernments I desist.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    Importance; moment; consequence.
    “Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer.” — Jer. Taylor.
  3. 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. 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.