anent
Americanpreposition
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in regard to; about; concerning.
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British. beside; in line with.
preposition
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lying against; alongside
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concerning; about
Etymology
Origin of anent
before 900; Middle English variant (with excrescent -t; see ancient 1) of anen, Old English on emn, on efen on even 1 (ground), with, beside
Example Sentences
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But in the same vein, he can get in some telling jabs: Oxbridge philosophers, to be cursory, Are products of a middle-class nursery: Their arguments are anent What Nanny really meant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Letters anent your choice . . . show a foggy ignorance of the tremendous burden of the crown .
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, at the Department of Commerce, Candidate Hoover received reports anent his great expectation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of a rarely discriminative collection of such tidbits, he has fashioned these wholly delightful and often pungent essays chiefly anent great soldiers of the past.
From Time Magazine Archive
These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles an’ all anent them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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