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Concernment
//kənˈsɜː(ɹ)nmənt// noun
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Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being a concern. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Men really ought to leave off talking a kind of nonsense on this subject, which they would neither talk nor listen to on other matters of practical concernment."
- 2 That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. countable, uncountable
"Our everlasting concernments."
- 3 importance; moment; consequence countable, uncountable
"Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer."
- 4 concern; participation; interposition countable, uncountable
"He married a daughter to the earl of Northumberland without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence."
- 5 Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety countable, uncountable
"'Tis not vvell, / Indeed my Lord, 'tis much unkind to me, / To ſhovv this paſſion, this extream concernment / For an abandon'd, faithleſs Proſtitute."
Etymology
From Middle English concernement; equivalent to concern + -ment.
See also for "concernment"
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