Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A matter that is of concern.
- noun Reference, relation, or importance.
- noun Anxiety; worry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thing in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; business; interest.
- noun The state or fact of concerning or affecting one's interest or happiness; importance; moment.
- noun The state of being concerned or occupied; interference; participation.
- noun The state of being concerned or anxious; concern; solicitude; anxiety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The state or quality of being a
concern - noun That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
- noun
importance ;moment ;consequence - noun
concern ;participation ;interposition - noun
emotion ofmind ;solicitude ;anxiety
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
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Matthews also writes that in middle school he had “an incipient though feckless concernment with the opposite sex.”
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Though we have in the precedent chapters dwelt pretty long on the considerations of space and duration, yet, they being ideas of general concernment, that have something very abstruse and peculiar in their nature, the comparing them one with another may perhaps be of use for their illustration; and we may have the more clear and distinct conception of them by taking a view of them together.
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Socrates the man, consisting of body and soul, when he is waking, are two persons: since waking Socrates has no knowledge of, or concernment for that happiness or misery of his soul, which it enjoys alone by itself whilst he sleeps, without perceiving anything of it; no more than he has for the happiness or misery of
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And yet in arguings and learned contests, the same sort of proceedings passes commonly for wit and learning; but to me it appears a greater dishonesty than the misplacing of counters in the casting up a debt; and the cheat the greater, by how much truth is of greater concernment and value than money.
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And in discourses of religion, law, and morality, as they are matters of the highest concernment, so there will be the greatest difficulty.
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Areopagitica 2007
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As to myself, I think God has given me assurance enough of the existence of things without me: since, by their different application, I can produce in myself both pleasure and pain, which is one great concernment of my present state.
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Areopagitica 2007
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Indeed it is urged, that it is suitable to the goodness of God, to imprint upon the minds of men characters and notions of himself, and not to leave them in the dark and doubt in so grand a concernment; and also, by that means, to secure to himself the homage and veneration due from so intelligent a creature as man; and therefore he has done it.
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