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
All the company took notice of your concernment.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
And that in that very order of things, in which they are described in the Janua Latinæ Linguæ; and with that fulness, that nothing very necessary or of great concernment is omitted.
From The Orbis Pictus by Charles Hoole
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 Hugh Binning
Shall we in the greatest thing of the greatest moment, because of eternal concernment be as perishing brutish beasts, that know not what we aim at?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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