concernedadj.n.

1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres i. 1 Divers Proceedings, Resolutions, Counsells, and Policies of all the concerned Parties [It. dell'vno, e dell'altro partito].

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 100 in Poems With concern'd haste her thoughtful looks she rais'd.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 To see the Heirs and concerned Relations, gratulating themselves.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 504. ⁋4 Taking him aside with a grave concerned countenance.

1780 B. La Trobe tr. D. Cranz Anc. & Mod. Hist. Brethren iv. 234 The treatise..which has proved so blessed and comfortable to many a concerned Lutheran minister.

1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 877 The more concerned spectators were not without fear.

1863 ‘N. Brook’ Gertrude Winn iii. 42 There were tears in her eyes. May saw them and looked very concerned.

1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 204 She was a thin woman with a dark face and the concerned expression of one who has watched every little good that life once had slip from her.

1977 M. McLuhan Let. 10 Aug. (1987) 531 He has become deeply concerned about the growing rate of non-literacy.

1992 Times of India 30 July 5/5 The Prime Minister said the full discussion..had brought to the fore the kind of details that would have come up during the negotiations with the concerned parties.

2000 Brill's Content Aug. 117/1 Nanny cams, which allow concerned parents to spy on their day-care providers.

1680 W. Rogers Christian-Quaker Pref. to Rdr. sig. (D4)^v I shall lay down the Considerations attending me, when I became Conscientiously concerned so to do.

1699 Epist. to Friends 17 After the Meeting for the worship of God was over, then Men, Friends, and Antient concerned Women, to meet together, and consider of this weighty matter.

1797 Jrnl. Life, Travels & Gospel Labours J. Scott iii. 54 I found many well concerned brethren, who seemed to have little or nothing of these scruples.

1830 Friend 15 May 248/2 He appears to be a concerned Friend; a diligent attender not only of his own particular meeting, but also the monthly meeting.

1896 Brit. Friend Feb. 38/2 Educated, well-concerned women Friends might find openings for useful service in Board Schools, Workhouse Schools, and Prison Wards.

1905 Friends' Intelligencer 13 May 301/1 Evening Meetings... The subject will be ‘The Concerned Citizen and Present-day Politics’.

1935 J. Rickman in P. King No Ordinary Psychoanalyst (2003) xv. 288 The feeling of unity with the community that this gives the Concerned Friend being communicated back to those who endorse the Concern.

2013 E. Cazden in S. W. Angell & P. Dandelion Oxf. Handbk. Quaker Stud. xxiii. 360 Throughout the country concerned Friends joined, and in some cases led, community campaigns to promote desegregation and racial justice.

1961 Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. 103 59 J. K. Galbraith..looked forward to Kennedy and those associated with him as people who would be ‘concerned’ in the sense of deeply and compassionately aware that there are problems..which need to be met.

1970 Time 13 July NY4/2 What of our idealistic, ‘concerned’ youth? Do we see them demonstrating and protesting against the inhumanities perpetrated by the Viet Cong..? No, sir, they are much too busy..finding fault with America's defense of democracy.

1986 Times 30 Apr. 12/6 [They] are caring, concerned and aware—and you haven't the faintest idea what they're talking about.

2012 Observer (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Review section) 24 A concerned liberal, she writes earnest books about Africa's problems.