Anent Definition

ə-nĕnt
preposition
Regarding; concerning.
American Heritage
Concerning; as regards; about.
Webster's New World

(archaic) Concerning, with regard to, about, in respect to, as to, insofar as, inasmuch as.

Wiktionary

Origin of Anent

  • From Middle English anent (“insofar as, inasmuch as, in comparison with, with respect to, as regards, concerning, in the opinion or judgment of; next to, close to, up to, near, adjoining, across from, over against, facing”), anen, from Old English on emn, on efen (“level with, beside”, literally “on even”); compare Dutch neven, German neben.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English onefn near on on on efn even

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Anent Sentence Examples

  • Sae awa she gaed til the glen ti spier at the wyce auld trout anent hirsell.

  • Of Cartesianism towards the close of the 17th century the only remnants were an overgrown theory of vortices, which received its death-blow from Newton, and a dubious phraseology anent innate ideas, which found a witt y executioner in Locke.

  • It is with a sense of relief that we read of his having really been stirred into active enthusiasm anent the wrongs done the ill-fated John Brown.

  • After his return to Amsterdam in 1824 Thorbecke wrote his first political work of any importance, Bedenkingen aangaande het Recht en den Staat (" Objections anent Law and the State"), which by its close reasoning and its legal acumen at once drew attention to the young barrister, and procured him in 1825 a chair as professor in Ghent University.

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Words Starting With

AANANE

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TNTENT

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