concernment
Americannoun
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importance or moment.
a matter of concernment to all voters.
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relation or bearing.
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anxiety or solicitude.
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a thing in which one is involved or interested.
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interest; participation; involvement.
noun
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rare affair or business; concern
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archaic a matter of importance
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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
Their absence of concernment with their several objects for the sake of being accommodated to the nature of the mind is this "resemblance" which we mean.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava
It would have surprised Courtlandt could he have foreseen the drawing together of the ends of the circle and the relative concernment of the duke in knotting those ends.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
The simple appearance of distress was enough with the President; and if that were so with a man in concernment, what would it be with a woman?
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Smith, Henry Bascom
What strange stupidity and senselessness is it, that men are not affected with things of so great and so near concernment?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
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