concernment

concern +‎ -ment

concernment (countable and uncountable, plural concernments)

1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being a concern
   • 1861, John Stuart Mill, “Utilitarianism”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     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.
   • I. Watts

     Our everlasting concernments.

   • Milton

     To mix with thy concernments I desist.

3. importance; moment; consequence
   • Jeremy Taylor

     Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer.

4. 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.

5. emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety
   • Dryden

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

• concern