concernment

concernment

English

Etymology

concern +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɜː(ɹ)nmənt/

Noun

concernment (countable and uncountable, plural concernments)

1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being a concern
   • 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism‎:

     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.
   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], OCLC 723474632:

     Our everlasting concernments.

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 60:

     To mix with thy concernments I deſiſt

3. importance; moment; consequence
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], OCLC 1203220866:

     Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.

4. concern; participation; interposition
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     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
   • 1677, John Dryden, All for Love or, The world well lost:

     While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment.

Synonyms

• concern