concernmentn.

Brit.

/kənˈsəːnm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/kənˈsərnm(ə)nt/

Forms: see concern v. and -ment suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: concern v., -ment suffix.

Etymology: < concern v. + -ment suffix. Compare concern n.

†1. A matter with which a person is occupied; a piece of business. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair

charec897

matter?c1225

journeya1352

affairc1390

notea1400

incident1485

concernment1495

actiona1500

business1524

concern1680

job1680

ploya1689

show1797

game1812

caper1839

pigeon dropping1850

shebang1869

hoodoo1876

racket1880

palaver1899

scene1964

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun]

thingeOE

charec897

cause1393

gleea1400

affaira1425

articlea1425

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concernment1495

subject?1541

gear1545

concerning1604

concern1659

interest1674

lookout1795

show1797

pidgin1807

put-in1853

chip1896

thang1932

1495 in J. G. Nichols & J. Bruce Wills Doctors' Commons (1863) 107 And to the end all my concernements, dues, and remayning affaires..may be well looked after.

1597 R. Naunton Let. 3 Mar. in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1976) II. 116 I shall thinke myself muche more happelie imploied then in the tedious prestolations of myne owne particuler concernements.

1621 King James VI & I Let. 14 Mar. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 59 To promote..our concernments with his Majesty.

1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. 293 In our civil Concernments, as well as in Matters of Learning.

1816 W. Scott Tales my Landlord 1st Ser. Introd. Men..travelling on their concernments of business.

1859 A. Trollope Bertrams II. xi. 163 He was now a man of many concernments.

2. The quality of being important to a person or group; weight, import. Chiefly in of (great, vital, etc.) concernment: of (great, vital, etc.) importance or interest. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun]

mund?c1250

steemc1330

greatnessc1410

substancec1425

importance1485

weight1521

moment1522

weightiness1530

importancy1531

importunance1546

import1548

reckoning1582

sequel1588

ponderosity1589

valure1594

consequence1597

significance1597

circumstance1599

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eminency1622

importmenta1625

concernment1626

consideration1634

telling1636

signification1645

considerableness1647

concerningness1657

nearness1679

significancy1679

respectability1769

interest1809

noteworthiness1852

portee1893

valency1897

1626 F. Rous Testis Veritatis 76 This seemes very necesary for the full discerning of a matter of so great consequence and concernment.

1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 202 The question here that is only of concernment is..by whom it was reserved.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 270 The number and concernment are lesse than what are injured by corrupted Historians.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 184 Their own concernment and importance will be enough to recommend them.

1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxvi. 281 Upon the account of both the certainty and the concernment of them [sc. objects of faith].

1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) iii. 106 Posts of too much concernment for their capacities.

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 230 Of great concernment, that the..charter should be kept safe.

1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 69 Secrets of highest concernment.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire v. 260 The..matter of vital concernment turned upon the general idea of the miraculous.

1900 Liverpool Mercury 25 Aug. 6/1 The margin..being an element of no little concernment to them.

†3.

a. The fact of concerning; relevance, bearing, connection. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > relation to something or reference

respitea1382

beholdingc1449

respect1485

aspect1509

regardc1520

reference1581

referrance1583

tending1587

reflection1614

intuition1626

concernment1640

concerning1642

tendency1651

influence1672

re1707

bearing1741

ref1845

concern1863

1640 Proc. Commissioners Parl. of Scotl. 45 in W. Kerr True Representation Proc. Kingdome of Scotl. Many of these propositions are of so small moment, being onely and meerely about the interest of privat persons, as they are of no publick concernement.

1659 J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catechetica 386 A message of very sad concernment.

1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 111 Mind..free from all concretion or concernment with matter.

1747 G. Lavington Serm. House of Lords 26 Nothing of private, or public concernment, can have any reasonable prospect of rising high, or standing long.

1765 Let. to E— of B— 2 It is the peculiar privilege of this country..that we claim a right..in all matters of concernment to the state.

1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (new ed.) xix. §5. 342 Crimes were thus regarded as matters of private concernment, with which the injured parties alone had to do.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. x. 206 The dative is the case of general relation or concernment.

b. A matter relating to something; a related matter. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > regard or side

sidec1275

respect1533

regard1573

concern1589

concernment1646

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 107 Other concernments there are of the Elephant, which might admit of discourse.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία sig. Avj In Concernments of Physick and their own Health.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 161 The delights, commodities, mysteries, with other concernments of this order.

1660 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 4) vi. vi. 417 Of whose creation, privileges and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a supplement to this Book.

†4. The fact of having a stake or interest in something; involvement, interest. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > interest or concern

interess?c1425

interesta1533

concernancy1604

concernment1640

concern1643

1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie i. §1. 1 The act was yours; the concernment the whole Churches.

1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 109 Our concernment in the incarnation was farre greater then the Angels, and yet how doe their thanks surmount ours?

1670 A. Marvell Let. 15 Feb. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 96 I shall not neglect..to giue you notice of what is done among us where you haue so much concernment.

1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 129 The King of England..having..most Concernment to be more considerable at Sea than any other Prince or State.

5. A feeling of concern; interest, solicitous regard, anxiety. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] > concern

concernance1645

concernment1652

concern1654

concernedness1661

reluctancy1666

1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. 7 Observing with more attention since with more concernment.

1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. v. Ded. Your Concernments for Her Misfortunes will put a Period to them.

1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) iii. 368 The suppos'd concernment of the Fiend For his revenge alone.

1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 186 If some concernment for a mother's right Deep preys upon you.

1905 J. Crichton-Browne Prevention of Senility 71 Never before has health in the aggregate been the object of public concernment as it now is.

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) vi. 53 That gaze of his which commonly seemed..strangely undisturbing; so free of concernment it seemed.

6. A matter which affects or touches a person, esp. one which engages his or her active interest and attention; a matter in which one has the right to interfere or involve oneself. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > subject of interest

concernmenta1661

preoccupier1746

concern1802

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 184 I presume the concernments of the Poor are well cared for.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 319 He that minds his own.., and but seldom intrudes upon the concernments of others.

1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant Pref. sig. A2 I do not think it my Concernment to defend it.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiv. 201 Those that have Influence upon our everlasting Concernments.

1867 H. Bushnell Moral Uses Dark Things 194 If he is ever seriously bent to the very highest concernments of his nature, he is likely to be so now.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Consarnment, concern; business. ‘I toud 'im it wuz no consarnment o' mine’.

1920 H. Begbie Life W. Booth II. v. 62 He really did listen to their [sc. his children's] tales, and really did feel interest in their concernments.

7. The action or an act of concerning oneself with, or being concerned in, something; engagement, involvement; an instance of this. Now rare. to have no concernment with: to have nothing to do with.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > participation in common interest

fellowshipa1250

communiona1382

participation?a1475

society1534

intercommoning1573

communication1574

concernment1676

participancy1856

participance1869

opting-in1969

1676 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 454 I offered your tract to divers booksellers, who refused a concernment in it.

1687 G. Towerson Baptism 98 The works of men can have no concernment in it.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 48 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.

a1766 J. Leland Disc. Var. Subj. (1768) II. i. 15 They..overlook the Providence of God..as if it had no Concernment with human Affairs.

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 57 The greatest men..whom modern Europe has produced in concernment with the arts.

1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism I. i. 58 The brew-house was managed..without any concernment of his father therein.

1917 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 June 282/2 His ardent concernment with the problems that engage us today.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	concernment
释义	concernmentn. Brit. /kənˈsəːnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /kənˈsərnm(ə)nt/ Forms: see concern v. and -ment suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: concern v., -ment suffix. Etymology: < concern v. + -ment suffix. Compare concern n. †1. A matter with which a person is occupied; a piece of business. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair charec897 matter?c1225 journeya1352 affairc1390 notea1400 incident1485 concernment1495 actiona1500 business1524 concern1680 job1680 ploya1689 show1797 game1812 caper1839 pigeon dropping1850 shebang1869 hoodoo1876 racket1880 palaver1899 scene1964 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > affair, business, concern > [noun] thingeOE charec897 cause1393 gleea1400 affaira1425 articlea1425 conversement1455 concernment1495 subject?1541 gear1545 concerning1604 concern1659 interest1674 lookout1795 show1797 pidgin1807 put-in1853 chip1896 thang1932 1495 in J. G. Nichols & J. Bruce Wills Doctors' Commons (1863) 107 And to the end all my concernements, dues, and remayning affaires..may be well looked after. 1597 R. Naunton Let. 3 Mar. in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1976) II. 116 I shall thinke myself muche more happelie imploied then in the tedious prestolations of myne owne particuler concernements. 1621 King James VI & I Let. 14 Mar. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 59 To promote..our concernments with his Majesty. 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. 293 In our civil Concernments, as well as in Matters of Learning. 1816 W. Scott Tales my Landlord 1st Ser. Introd. Men..travelling on their concernments of business. 1859 A. Trollope Bertrams II. xi. 163 He was now a man of many concernments. 2. The quality of being important to a person or group; weight, import. Chiefly in of (great, vital, etc.) concernment: of (great, vital, etc.) importance or interest. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] mund?c1250 steemc1330 greatnessc1410 substancec1425 importance1485 weight1521 moment1522 weightiness1530 importancy1531 importunance1546 import1548 reckoning1582 sequel1588 ponderosity1589 valure1594 consequence1597 significance1597 circumstance1599 consequent1599 eminency1622 importmenta1625 concernment1626 consideration1634 telling1636 signification1645 considerableness1647 concerningness1657 nearness1679 significancy1679 respectability1769 interest1809 noteworthiness1852 portee1893 valency1897 1626 F. Rous Testis Veritatis 76 This seemes very necesary for the full discerning of a matter of so great consequence and concernment. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 202 The question here that is only of concernment is..by whom it was reserved. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 270 The number and concernment are lesse than what are injured by corrupted Historians. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 184 Their own concernment and importance will be enough to recommend them. 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxvi. 281 Upon the account of both the certainty and the concernment of them [sc. objects of faith]. 1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) iii. 106 Posts of too much concernment for their capacities. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 230 Of great concernment, that the..charter should be kept safe. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 69 Secrets of highest concernment. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire v. 260 The..matter of vital concernment turned upon the general idea of the miraculous. 1900 Liverpool Mercury 25 Aug. 6/1 The margin..being an element of no little concernment to them. †3. a. The fact of concerning; relevance, bearing, connection. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > relation to something or reference respitea1382 beholdingc1449 respect1485 aspect1509 regardc1520 reference1581 referrance1583 tending1587 reflection1614 intuition1626 concernment1640 concerning1642 tendency1651 influence1672 re1707 view1719 bearing1741 ref1845 concern1863 1640 Proc. Commissioners Parl. of Scotl. 45 in W. Kerr True Representation Proc. Kingdome of Scotl. Many of these propositions are of so small moment, being onely and meerely about the interest of privat persons, as they are of no publick concernement. 1659 J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catechetica 386 A message of very sad concernment. 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 111 Mind..free from all concretion or concernment with matter. 1747 G. Lavington Serm. House of Lords 26 Nothing of private, or public concernment, can have any reasonable prospect of rising high, or standing long. 1765 Let. to E— of B— 2 It is the peculiar privilege of this country..that we claim a right..in all matters of concernment to the state. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (new ed.) xix. §5. 342 Crimes were thus regarded as matters of private concernment, with which the injured parties alone had to do. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. x. 206 The dative is the case of general relation or concernment. b. A matter relating to something; a related matter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > regard or side sidec1275 respect1533 regard1573 concern1589 concernment1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 107 Other concernments there are of the Elephant, which might admit of discourse. View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία sig. Avj In Concernments of Physick and their own Health. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 161 The delights, commodities, mysteries, with other concernments of this order. 1660 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 4) vi. vi. 417 Of whose creation, privileges and other concernments you may be more fully satisfied in a supplement to this Book. †4. The fact of having a stake or interest in something; involvement, interest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > interest or concern interess?c1425 interesta1533 concernancy1604 concernment1640 concern1643 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie i. §1. 1 The act was yours; the concernment the whole Churches. 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 109 Our concernment in the incarnation was farre greater then the Angels, and yet how doe their thanks surmount ours? 1670 A. Marvell Let. 15 Feb. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 96 I shall not neglect..to giue you notice of what is done among us where you haue so much concernment. 1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 129 The King of England..having..most Concernment to be more considerable at Sea than any other Prince or State. 5. A feeling of concern; interest, solicitous regard, anxiety. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] > concern concernance1645 concernment1652 concern1654 concernedness1661 reluctancy1666 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. 7 Observing with more attention since with more concernment. 1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. v. Ded. Your Concernments for Her Misfortunes will put a Period to them. 1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) iii. 368 The suppos'd concernment of the Fiend For his revenge alone. 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 186 If some concernment for a mother's right Deep preys upon you. 1905 J. Crichton-Browne Prevention of Senility 71 Never before has health in the aggregate been the object of public concernment as it now is. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) vi. 53 That gaze of his which commonly seemed..strangely undisturbing; so free of concernment it seemed. 6. A matter which affects or touches a person, esp. one which engages his or her active interest and attention; a matter in which one has the right to interfere or involve oneself. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > subject of interest concernmenta1661 preoccupier1746 concern1802 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 184 I presume the concernments of the Poor are well cared for. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 319 He that minds his own.., and but seldom intrudes upon the concernments of others. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant Pref. sig. A2 I do not think it my Concernment to defend it. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiv. 201 Those that have Influence upon our everlasting Concernments. 1867 H. Bushnell Moral Uses Dark Things 194 If he is ever seriously bent to the very highest concernments of his nature, he is likely to be so now. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Consarnment, concern; business. ‘I toud 'im it wuz no consarnment o' mine’. 1920 H. Begbie Life W. Booth II. v. 62 He really did listen to their [sc. his children's] tales, and really did feel interest in their concernments. 7. The action or an act of concerning oneself with, or being concerned in, something; engagement, involvement; an instance of this. Now rare. to have no concernment with: to have nothing to do with. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > participation in common interest fellowshipa1250 communiona1382 participation?a1475 society1534 intercommoning1573 communication1574 concernment1676 participancy1856 participance1869 opting-in1969 1676 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 454 I offered your tract to divers booksellers, who refused a concernment in it. 1687 G. Towerson Baptism 98 The works of men can have no concernment in it. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 48 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. a1766 J. Leland Disc. Var. Subj. (1768) II. i. 15 They..overlook the Providence of God..as if it had no Concernment with human Affairs. 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 57 The greatest men..whom modern Europe has produced in concernment with the arts. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism I. i. 58 The brew-house was managed..without any concernment of his father therein. 1917 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 June 282/2 His ardent concernment with the problems that engage us today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1495
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