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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

The thing in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; business; interest.

To mix with thy concernments I desist.

Propositions which extend only to the present life, are small, compared with those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments.

The great concernment of men is with men.

A particular bearing upon the interest or happiness of one; importance; moment.

Experimental truths are matters of great concernment to mankind.

Concern; interposition; meddling; as, the father had no concernment in the marriage of his daughter. In this sense, we generally use concern.

Emotion of mind; solicitude; as, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. In this sense, concern is generally used.

concernment ‎(countable and uncountable, plural concernments)

(obsolete) The state or quality of being a concern
- 1861, John Stuart Mill, “Utilitarianism”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
  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.
That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
- I. Watts
  Our everlasting concernments.
- Milton
  To mix with thy concernments I desist.
importance; moment; consequence
- Jeremy Taylor
  Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.
concern; participation; interposition
- Clarendon
  He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.
emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety
- Dryden
  While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment.