concernment

noun5

1. •
   That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.

   • Our everlasting concernments. — 1741
2. •
   Importance; moment; consequence.

   • Let every action of concernment be begun with prayer. — 1651
3. •
   Concern; participation; interposition.

   • He married a daughter to the earl of Northumberland without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. — 1702
4. •
   Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.

   • 'Tis not vvell, / Indeed my Lord, 'tis much unkind to me, / To shovv this passion, this extream concernment / For an abandon'd, faithless Prostitute. — 1677
5. •
   (no longer used) The state or quality of being a concern.

   • Men really ought to leave off talking a kind of nonsense on this subject, which they would neither talk nor listen to on other matters of practical concernment. — 1861