concernment

UK /kənˈsɜː(ɹ)nmənt/ US /kənˈsɜː(ɹ)nmənt/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

The state or quality of being a concern.

Men really ought to leave off talking a kind of nonsense on this subject, which they would neither talk nor listen to on other matters of practical concernment.

2

That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.

Our everlasting concernments.

To mix with thy concernments I deſiſt

3

importance; moment; consequence

Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.

4

concern; participation; interposition

He married a daughter to the earl of Northumberland without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.

5

Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety

'Tis not vvell, / Indeed my Lord, 'tis much unkind to me, / To ſhovv this paſſion, this extream concernment / For an abandon'd, faithleſs Proſtitute.

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