concerning Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb be relevant to
    touch on; relate; pertain; have-to doe with; bear on; touch; come to; refer; concern.
    • There were lots of questions referring to her talk
    • My remark pertained to your earlier comments
  2. verb be on the mind of
    occupy; worry; interest; concern.
    • I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift

WordNet

Con*cern"ing preposition
Definitions
  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.
Con*cern"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Important. Archaic
    So great and so concerning truth. South.
Con*cern"ing noun
Definitions
  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 1913