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Pertaining vs Regarding - What's the difference?

pertaining | regarding |

As verbs the difference between pertaining and regarding

is that pertaining is present participle of lang=en while regarding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pertaining and regarding

is that pertaining is something that pertains; an appurtenance while regarding is the act by which something is regarded or observed.

As a preposition regarding is

concerning, respecting.

pertaining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
  • * 1869 , Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)
    • When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

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    regarding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Concerning, respecting.

    • Related terms

    * with respect to

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is regarded or observed.
  • * Pope Gregory I, Morals on the Book of Job
    • God Invisible by the assumption of His Manhood was laid open to the regardings of our sight.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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    * English prepositions