concernment

American  

[kuhn-surn-muhnt] / kənˈsɜrn mənt /

noun

1. importance or moment.

   a matter of concernment to all voters.

2. relation or bearing.

3. anxiety or solicitude.

4. a thing in which one is involved or interested.

5. interest; participation; involvement.

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concernment British  

/ kənˈsɜːnmənt /

noun

1. rare affair or business; concern

2. archaic a matter of importance

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Other Word Forms

• preconcernment noun

Etymology

Origin of concernment

First recorded in 1600–10; concern + -ment

Example Sentences

Nearly everyone, Washington observed with consternation and annoyance, had “matters of private concernment which required them to be absent.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Excuse me, I know you fear not to meet destruction; But where men are sure to perish, 'Twere well the persons were of less concernment.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

But I don't see how the likes and the dislikes of a poor soldier can have any concernment with you.”

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George

I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

That persons of known integrity may be employed in all parts, and a sufficient salary allowed, as becomes a trust of that great concernment.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.