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

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 Dryden, John

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

It is a wonder it doth not draw us upward beyond our own element,—it is a subject of such admiration in itself, and so much concernment to us.

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

This then that we have in hand is one thing of greatest moment and concernment in the world.

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