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concern
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French concerner, from Medieval Latin concern?, concernere (“I distinguish, have respect to”), from Latin concern? (“I mix, sift, or mingle together, as in a sieve”), combined form of con- + cern? (“distinguish”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?s?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?s??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Hyphenation: con?cern
Noun
concern (countable and uncountable, plural concerns)
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- Synonym: interest
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern.
- 2006, Awais Rashid, Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II, page 148:
Translations
Further reading
- concern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- concern in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
concern (third-person singular simple present concerns, present participle concerning, simple past and past participle concerned)
- (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31
- Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- our wars with France have always affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those we have had with any other nation
- 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy
- ignorant, so far as the usual instruction was concerned
- 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts xxviii. 31
- (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency adjusted and recommended
- (transitive) To make somebody worried.
Synonyms
- (to be of importance to): See also Thesaurus:pertain
Derived terms
- concernable
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English concern.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?s?rn/
- Hyphenation: con?cern
- Rhymes: -?rn
Noun
concern n (plural concerns, diminutive concerntje n)
- company, business, concern
Derived terms
- chemieconcern
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anguish
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?ng?-gw?sh, IPA(key): /?æ?.?w??/
Etymology 1
From Middle English angwissh, anguishe, angoise, from Anglo-Norman anguise, anguisse, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia (“narrowness, scarcity, difficulty, distress”), from angustus (“narrow, difficult”), from angere (“to press together, cause pain, distress”). See angst, the Germanic cognate, and anger.
Noun
anguish (countable and uncountable, plural anguishes)
- Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "The Third Sermon Preached before King Edward VI:
- So, ye miserable people; you must go to God in anguishes, and make your prayer to him.
- 1595/96, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Act V, sc. 1:
- Is there no play,
- To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Book I, LIII:
- Love of your selfe, she saide, and deare constraint,
- Lets me not sleepe, but wast the wearie night
- In secret anguish and unpittied plaint,
- Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 6:9:
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- 1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern, "Cinyras and Myrrha":
- There, loathing Life, and yet of Death afraid,
- In Anguish of her Spirit, thus she pray'd.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder, A Poem in Two Books, Book I:
- May I the sacred pleasures know
- Of strictest amity, nor ever want
- A friend with whom I mutually may share
- Gladness and anguish ...
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 18:
- She took his trembling hand, and kissed it, and put it round her neck: she called him her John—her dear John—her old man—her kind old man; she poured out a hundred words of incoherent love and tenderness; her faithful voice and simple caresses wrought this sad heart up to an inexpressible delight and anguish, and cheered and solaced his over-burdened soul.
- 1892, Walt Whitman, The Leaves of Grass, "Old War-Dreams":
- In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
- Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable
- look,)
- Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide,
- I dream, I dream, I dream.
- Synonyms: agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment; see also Thesaurus:agony
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "The Third Sermon Preached before King Edward VI:
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English angwischen, anguis(s)en, from Old French angoissier, anguissier, from the noun (see Etymology 1).
Verb
anguish (third-person singular simple present anguishes, present participle anguishing, simple past and past participle anguished)
- (intransitive) To suffer pain.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish, it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
- c. 1900s, Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song, traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
- (transitive) To cause to suffer pain.
Translations
References
Further reading
- anguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- anguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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