concernment

[ kuhn-surn-muhnt ]

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.

concernment

/ kənˈsɜːnmənt /

noun

1. rare.
   affair or business; concern
2. archaic.
   a matter of importance

Other Words From

• precon·cernment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of concernment¹

First recorded in 1600–10; concern + -ment

Example Sentences

Brewster was altogether grand and his children must ever be our concernment.

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The question was one of deep concernment, and I continued to consider it till it was announced that supper was ready.

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For they are always the effect of some hasty concernment, and something of consequence depends on them.

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And wilt thou unfit thyself for the service of God, as if thy work were of less concernment than thy beast's?

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Of how great concernment faithful pastors are for the conversion of the ungodly, see a Jesuit, Acosta, lib.

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