Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Concerning that; regarding or respecting that matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Scot. Concerning that.
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- adverb Alternative form of
thereanent .
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Examples
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Gettysburg, because of recent publications there-anent.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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He had a taste for the turf -- a taste for play -- was well known in the hundreds of Drury, and cut no mean figure at Howell's, and the faro tables there-anent.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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And for their barbarous feîdes (feuds), put the laws to due execution made by mee there-anent; beginning ever rathest at him that yee love best, and is oblished vnto you, to make him an example to the rest.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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