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concernment|kənˈsɜːnmənt|
[f. concern v. + -ment.]
†1. A matter concerning, or having relation to, any person or thing; a matter appertaining. Obs.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry vi. vi. (1660) 417 Of whose creation, privileges, and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a Supplement to this Book. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. i. 107 Other concernments there are of the Elephant, which might admit of discourse. 1654Whitlock Zootomia A vj, In Concernments of Physick and their own Health. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus Wks. II. 541 The delights, commodities, mysteries, with other concernments of this order.
†2. A matter in which any one has or takes an interest; an interest. Obs. or arch.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxvii. 292 He that minds his own..and but seldom intrudes upon the concernments of others. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 388, I presume the concernments of the poor are well cared for. 1741Watts Improv. Mind xiv. Wks. (1813) 96 Those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments. 1867Bushnell Mor. Use Dark Th. 194 The very highest concernments of his nature.
3. An affair, business, concern.
1621Jas. I Let. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 59 To promote..our concernments with his Majesty. 1662Dryden Wild Gallant Pref., I do not think it my Concernment to defend it. 1725Watts Logic ii. iii. Introd., In our civil concernments; as well as in matters of learning. 1816Scott Tales My Landlord Ser. i. Introd., Men..travelling on their concernments of business. 1859Trollope Bertrams II. xi. 163 He was now a man of many concernments. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Consarnment, concern; business. ‘I toud 'im it wuz no consarnment o' mine’.
4. The fact of concerning or having reference; relation, bearing, application, connexion. Commonly after of, as ‘a matter of public concernment’, i.e. that concerns the public.
1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 31 In any matters of particular concernment. 1659J. Arrowsmith Chain Princ. 386 A message of very sad concernment. 1692Bp. Rochester Wicked Contriv. in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 497 Mr. Dyve..found nothing in them [letters] but matters of private concernment. 1694R. Burthogge Reason 111 Mind.. free from all concretion or concernment with matter. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xix. §5 (1862) 342 Crimes were thus regarded as matters of private concernment, with which the injured parties alone had to do. 1875Whitney Life Lang. x. 206 The dative is the case of general relation or concernment.
5. The quality of concerning or being important to persons, etc.; importance, weight, moment.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 270 The number and concernment are lesse than what are injured by corrupted Historians. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. §3 (1692) 90 No Person of common Understanding will conclude an Equal Weight or Concernment in these things. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 184 Their own concernment and importance will be enough to recommend them. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts iv, Upon the account of both the certainty and the concernment of them [objects of faith].
b. esp. in the attrib. phrases, of concernment, of great, special, vital (etc.) concernment.
1642Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 202 The question here that is only of concernment is..by whom it was reserved. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 25/3 To take some Iland of concernment in those Parts. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. (1757) 206 Posts of too much concernment for their capacities. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Col. Mass. ii. 230 Of great concernment, that the..charter should be kept safe. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. ii. 56 Secrets of highest concernment. 1872Morley Voltaire v. Matter of vital concernment.
†6. A relation of being objectively interested in any matter; interest. to have (a) concernment: to be concerned or interested (in). Obs.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. i. §1. 1 The act was yours; the concernment the whole Churches. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 109 Our concernment in the incarnation was farre greater then the Angels, and yet how doe their thanks surmount ours? 1670Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 300, I shall not neglect to give you notice of what is done among us, where you have so much concernment. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 129 The King of England..having..most Concernment to be more considerable at Sea than any other Prince or State.
7. A concerning oneself with or being concerned in anything; interference. to have concernment with: to have to do with.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1843) 25/2 And married a beautiful young Lady..without any other approbation of her Father, or concernment in it, than suffering him and her to come into his presence after they were married. 1676Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 454, I offered your tract to divers booksellers, who refused a concernment in it. 1687G. Towerson Baptism 98 The works of men can have no concernment in it. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. iv. §2 The greatest men..whom modern Europe has produced in concernment with the arts. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. I. i. 58 The brew-house was managed..without any concernment of his father therein.
8. A feeling of interest, solicitude, anxiety, etc.
1652Sir C. Cotterell tr. Cassandra i. 7 Observing with more attention since with more concernment. 1654Earl of Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 713 Your Concernments for her Misfortunes will put a Period to them. 1693Mem. Cnt. Teckely ii. 164 The King of Poland testified to them a sensible concernment at what had passed. 1773J. Ross Fratricide (MS.) iii. 368 The suppos'd concernment of the Fiend For his revenge alone. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 186 If some concernment for a mother's right Deep preys upon you. |