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Concern   /kənsˈərn/   Listen
noun
Concern  n.  
1.
That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. "The private concerns of fanilies."
2.
That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment. "Mysterious secrets of a high concern."
3.
Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety. "O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle."
4.
(Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.
The whole concern, all connected with a particular affair or business.
Synonyms: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business; affair; matter; moment. See Care.



verb
Concern  v. t.  (past & past part. concerned; pres. part. concerning)  
1.
To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to. "Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ." "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 a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn." "Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned."
2.
To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects. "They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor."



Concern  v. i.  To be of importance. (Obs.) "Which to deny concerns more than avails."






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"Concern" Quotes from Famous Books



... criticism of the novel than elsewhere. An enormous effusion of writing about novels, especially in the daily papers, most of it casual and conventional, much of it with neither discrimination nor constraint, drowns the few manful voices raised to a pitch of honest concern. The criticism of fiction, taken by and large, is not so good as the criticism of our acted drama, not so good as our musical criticism, not so good as current reviewing of poetry and of ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... aright." A man's character, feelings, and conduct, all depend upon his opinions. If a man can reason himself into the belief that it is right to take the property of others and to deceive by false statements, he will probably prove a thief and a liar. It is of the greatest concern, therefore, to every man, that his fellow-men should believe right, and one of his most sacred duties is to use all his influence ...
— An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism - With reference to the duty of American females • Catharine E. Beecher

... the benefit of whom it might concern; "the first thing I always do, when I go to work, is to name my characters. It's the hardest thing in the world to do—properly. You can stick any sort of name to any sort of character, I know; but that's not naming them. Not at all. The name must be a label; it must fit like a glove, and ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... said Baltasar, in a tone which belied his professed concern, "that my arrival should interfere with your plans, and endanger the life ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various

... her alarm, to which she replied, 'I am sick for sorrow and my fear of the son of Adam: beware, O beware of the sons of Adam!' 'Fear not,' rejoined the peacock, 'now that thou hast won to us.' 'Praised be God,' cried the duck, 'who hath done away my trouble and my concern with your neigbourhood! For indeed I come, desiring your friendship.' Thereupon the peahen came down to her and said, 'Welcome and fair welcome! No harm shall befall thee: how can the son of Adam come at us and we in this island midmost the sea? From the land he ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume III • Anonymous


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