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 "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Now, again, to know that ye do believe, and to discern your interest in Christ, this is but a matter of comfort and of second concernment.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

It not only solicits the grave attention of all, to whom its doctrines are presented, but it demands their cordial belief, as a matter of vital concernment.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon

But, I beseech you, consider how greatly you mistake a main matter of weighty concernment.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh