concernment

[ kuhn-surn-muhnt ]

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.

concernment

/ kənˈsɜːnmənt /

noun

1. rare.
   affair or business; concern
2. archaic.
   a matter of importance

Other Words From

• precon·cernment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of concernment¹

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

Discouraged by the obscurity of God’s ways and the difficulty of believing when the mind is not sustained by success or by new thoughts or manifest tokens of God’s presence, we naturally cease to look for any clear signs of God’s concernment about our state, and rest from all anxious craving to know God’s will about us.

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What concernment can he have there?

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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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