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Concern
CONCERN, v.t. [L., to separate, sift, divide; to see. If this is the true origin, as I suppose, the primary sense is, to reach or extend to, or to look to, as we use regard.]
1. To relate or belong to.
Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 28.
2. To relate or belong to, in an emphatical manner; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
It much concerns us to secure the favor and protection of God.
3. To interest of affect the passions; to take an interest in; to engage by feeling or sentiment.
A good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. A kind parent concerns himself in the virtuous education of his children. They
They think themselves out of the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor.
4. To disturb; to make uneasy. [Little used.]
5. To intermeddle.
We need not concern ourselves with the affairs of our neighbors.
CONCERN, n.
1. That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair; a very general term, expressing whatever occupies the time and attention, or affects the interests of a person. Intermeddle not in the private concerns of a family. Religion is the main concern of a rational being. We have no concern in the private quarrels of our neighbors. The industrious and prudent occupy their time with their own concerns.
2. Interest; importance; moment; that which affects the welfare or happiness.
To live in peace, is a matter of no small concern to a nation.
Mysterious secrets of a high concern, and weighty truths, solid convincing sense, explained by unaffected eloquence.
3. Affection; regard; careful regard; solicitude; anziety.
Why all this concern for the poor things of this life?
O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns, and gentle wishes, follow me to battle.
An impenitent man feels no concern for his soul.
4. Persons connected in business; or their affairs in general; as a debt due to the whole concern; a loss affecting the whole concern. Mercantile Usage.
concern appears in definitions for these words:
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Abbot Abettor About Advocate Affair After Agency Agitator Agree Alas Alike Allot Aloof Anent Anxiety Anxious Apathy Archon Arrangement Art As Asleep Attorney Audit Bank Bargain Belie Belong Belonging Bibliomancy Bishopric Blaspheming Bless Bookland Both Business Busy Busy-body By-stander Care Careful Carelessly Cark Catechise Charge Chattel Chiefly Chronographer Church-warden Coldly Collection Commercial Company Concern Concerned Concerning Concernment Concordat Congress Consent Contentedly Convention Conversant Copartner Copartnership Coroner Counsel Crimp Cumber Curious Dabble Dairy Dealer Dealing Deanery Decline Decree Deicide Demonology Descant Designate Determine Difficulty Dip Dipping Direction Disavow Discourse Discredit Disentangle Dispatch Disquisition Do Domestic Double-face Doubt Ease Economic Economist Economize Economy Embassador Embassy Engage Equal Except Exchange Figurate Financial Fine Fraudulence Gazette Goldsmith Guardian Hand Hear Heart Holder House Housewifery Husband Huswifery Implicate Implicated Implicating Indifferently Inpolitic Inquest Inquire Inquisition Intercourse Interest Interested Interesting Interfere Intermeddle Intrigue Intrust Jealous Jealousy Jointly Judgment Judiciary Juror Levitical Loftily Mainly Major Manage Materially Mature Meddle Meddler Meddling Million Momentous Monastery Monastic Monk Near Nearly Necessity Negligent Nonage None Object Of Officious Officiousness Out Parley Part Party Passionate Personal Pertinent Picturesque Policy Pragmatic President Priestcraft Principal Private Privity Profoundly Prognostic Promise Prophesy Protest Providence Prudential Prudentials Raffle Real Regard Regarding Relating Religious Representative Resolve Respecting Revival Secrecy Secret Secular Secure See Seethe Selectman Self-deception Self-interested Sentence Sequester Serious Seriousness Serve Share Shipping Shipwreck So Social Solicitous Solicitously Solicitude Speech Stand Steward Subject Supercargo Tell-tale Temporal Tender Tenderness Theogony Therapeutic Thereabout Thought Thoughtfulness Touch Touching Trust Twist Unconcern Unconcerned Unconcernedness Undistracted Undistractedly Undistractedness Unmeddling Vast Verdict Vestry-man Vital Whereabout Worldly-mindedness Write
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