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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (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 destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Important. [Archaic] So great and so concerning truth. South.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: preposition (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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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