anent

Meanings

1. 1
   prep

   concerning or with regard to; used chiefly in Scots and formal or archaic writing

   The committee received several letters anent the proposed harbor rules.

From Middle English anent and related forms, from Old English on efen ("alongside, opposite"), literally "on even." Spatial senses such as "opposite" gave rise to the later sense "concerning, with regard to."

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