Concernment

//kənˈsɜː(ɹ)nmənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. countable, uncountable

    "Our everlasting concernments."

  3. 3
    importance; moment; consequence countable, uncountable

    "Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer."

  4. 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. 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.

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