Con-cĕrn'ment, n.

n. 1. The thing in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; business; interest. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. Propositions which extend only to the present life are small, compared with those that have influence upon our everlasting concernments. Watts. 2. A particular bearing upon the interest or happiness of one; importance; moment. Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer. Bp. Taylor. 3. Concern; interposition; meddling. He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her to come into his presence. Clarendon. 4. Emotion of mind; solicitude. While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.