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
Other Word Forms
- preconcernment noun
Etymology
Origin of concernment
Example Sentences
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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
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
And yet I could, with less concernment, bear That death of which you speak, than see you here.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
Their absence of concernment with their several objects for the sake of being accommodated to the nature of the mind is this "resemblance" which we mean.
From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava
Excuse me, I know you fear not to meet destruction; But where men are sure to perish, 'Twere well the persons were of less concernment.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
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