concerningness love

Definitions

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  • noun The state or quality of being concerning.

Etymologies

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concerning +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The difference in the perfect God and perfect man does not remove the objection: for an epithet, which conceals half of a truth, the power and special concerningness of which, relatively to our redemption by Christ, depends on our knowledge of the whole, is a deceptive and a dangerously deceptive epithet.

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

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