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 Literature

What concernment can he have there?

From Project Gutenberg

And he who works dully on a story, without moving laughter in a comedy, or raising concernment in a serious play, is no more to be accounted a good poet, than a gunsmith of the Minories is to be compared with the best workman of the town.

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All the company took notice of your concernment.

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And yet I could, with less concernment, bear That death of which you speak, than see you here.

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