concernment
[kuh n-surn-muh nt]
- importance or moment: a matter of concernment to all voters.
- relation or bearing.
- anxiety or solicitude.
- a thing in which one is involved or interested.
- interest; participation; involvement.
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Origin of concernment
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Related Words for concernment
concern, consequence, import, magnitude, relevance, significance, significancy, weight, weightiness, affair, business, matter, anguish, anxiety, apprehension, distress, solicitude, uneasiness, solicitousnessExamples from the Web for concernment
Historical Examples of concernment
Brewster was altogether grand and his children must ever be our concernment.
The Comstock ClubCharles Carroll Goodwin
My concernment in this Essay is neither with his virtue, nor his fall.
He made no reply, but followed the token with his little grey eyes, apparently without any sort of aim or concernment.
I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.
But I don't see how the likes and the dislikes of a poor soldier can have any concernment with you.
Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's RebellionSt. George Tucker
concernment
- rare affair or business; concern
- archaic a matter of importance
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