Obs. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] a. The taking of concern. b. Concernment; relation, reference. c. A matter that concerns one; a concern.
1594. O. B. (title), Questions of profitable and pleasant concernings, on the Display of vaine life.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 191. ’Twere good you let him know, For who … Would from a Paddocke … Such deere concernings hide. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., I. i. 57. We shall write to you … and our concernings shall importune.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. iv. 60. Ibid., IV. viii. 274. One memorable act … which though single in it self, was plurall in the concernings thereof.
