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Concern vs Spiritistic - What's the difference?

concern | spiritistic |

As a noun concern

is that which affects one's welfare or happiness.

As a verb concern

is (label) to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

As an adjective spiritistic is

of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (); spiritualistic.

concern

English

Noun

  • That which affects one's welfare or happiness.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}
  • The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 citation , passage=Appleby
  • A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
  • * 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):
    • Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.
  • (computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
  • * 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)
    • At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

    Synonyms

    * (sense, that which affects one's welfare or happiness) interest

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31
  • *:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • *:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
  • *(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)
  • *:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • (label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.
  • (label) To make somebody worried.
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    • Derived terms

    * concernable

    spiritistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to, or associated, dealing, concerned, or connected with, spiritism (); spiritualistic.
  • * 1867 , England’s Leader ?, 15th June 1867 issue, page 333, column 1
    • That spiritistic ‘literature’ which has led astray…so many weak and impressionable minds.
  • * 1880 , , The Undiscovered Country , chapter 4, page 70
    • The only perfectly ascertained fact of spiritistic science is the rap.
  • * 1898 , , volume 52, page 493
    • New support for unfounded spiritualistic and spiritistic chimeras.
  • * 1949 , , The Education of Free Men: An Essay Toward a Philosophy of Education for Americans (2nd ed.; Farrar, Straus), page 151
    • No living person can enter the perception of his fellow save as a body. This holds in the most spiritistic of systems. Even the bodyless dead must have a living body for a medium of their manifestation; nor can any event of heaven or hell make sense except by way of bodily reference.
  • * 1993 , , Varieties of Scientific Contextualism (Context Press; ISBN 1878978055, 9781878978059), page 36
    • All conventional philosophies assume the existence of a real world?—?a reality apart from knowers and their knowing?—?although not all indulge themselves in speculations concerning ontological matters. I make this claim even of the most spiritistic forms of idealism, in that to speak about the universe at all implies someone speaking and something spoken about?—?these two constituting the existent reality.

    References

    * “ spiri?tistic, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989