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thereanent, adv. Orig. and chiefly Sc. and north.|ðɛərəˈnɛnt|
[Orig. two words, there 17 and anent prep.]
About, concerning, or in reference to that matter, business, etc.; relating thereto.
c1340Cursor M. 20789 (Gött.) Bot þar enent [v.r. there⁓again], sais Ieronim, He wil noght take þe boke on him. 1562Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 218 For satisfying of hir Hienes thairanent. 1578Ibid. II. 700 Ordour to be takin thairanent with expeditioun. 1681Sc. Acts Jas. II (1820) VIII. 243/2 According to the tenour of the respective acts of Parliament thereanent provided. 1726Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 243 To hear the state of this affair..and bring in an overture thereanent. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xii, I will gage my life upon his making my words good thereanent. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxi, The reader would not care to have my impressions thereanent. 1868Visct. Strangford Select. (1869) II. 311 The public prints of an earlier date in this year..may be consulted thereanent with propriety.
Hence (with advb. genitive) † thereaˈnents (-anentis, -anendes) adv., in same sense; in quot. c 1400 app. = thereabouts 1.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 30 It [þe Reed See] is þer anentes vi. myle brade. 1552Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 133 [We sall] leif nocht behind that lyis in our possibiliteis thairanentis. 1564Child-Marriages 26 Procured the Counselles lettres theranendes. c1568Reg. Murray in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) 218 My Lord of Argyll..spak largely..theiranents to the Queen herself. |