concernancyn.
/kənˈsəːnənsi/, U.S. /kənˈsərnənsi/ Now rare.
Interest, concern.
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1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 107 + 16 Cour. Your Lordship speakes most infallibly of him. Ham. The concernancy sir, why doe we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath?
1662 W. Hemings Jewes Trag. iii. 36 Hum, hum, declare the sum of thy concernancy.
1963 Illustr. London News 21 Dec. 1046/3 We do not see his death.., or see anything at all of the aftermath which is the aforementioned last chapter's concernancy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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